David L. Morse

David Lawrence Morse is a lecturer and the director of the Writing Program at Yale's Jackson School of Global Affairs.  Prior to joining Yale, he taught for nearly 20 years in the Writing Center at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.  The Book of Disbelieving, his first collection of stories, won the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and is forthcoming from Sarabande Books in July 2023.  His writing has also garnered an O. Henry Prize and numerous Hopwood awards.  The Washington Post published his essay on the moral and political complexity of mendacity, and his first play, QUARTET, was performed by the Takács Quartet and the Colorado Shakespeare Festival.

Prize anthology mentions

Pushcart (Fiction) 2011*

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