David Brendan Hopes

David Brendan Hopes is Professor of English at UNCA. He received his Ph.D in English from Syracuse in 1980. He is author (in non-fiction) of A Sense of the Mornings (Dodd Mead, Scribners), A Childhood in the Milky Way (Akron University Press), which was nominated for both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award; Bird Songs of the Mesozoic (Milkweed Editions). In poetry he has published The Glacier’s Daughters (U. Mass, Juniper and Saxifrage Prize) Blood Rose (Urthona Press), A Dream of Adonis ( Pecan Grove Press), and Peniel, Saint Julian Press. His two novels are The Falls of the Wyona (Red Hen) and Night, Sleep, and the Dreams of Lovers (Black Mountain), both 2019. He lives in Asheville, NC

Prize anthology mentions

Pushcart (Fiction) 2015*

Best American Poetry 2017

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