 David Wright’s essays and articles have appeared in The Village Voice, The Kenyon Review, New York Newsday, Color Lines, Paste Magazine, and elsewhere. He has published fiction in The Massachusetts Review, Witness, The Southern Review, and African American Review, among others, and been anthologized in Gumbo: Stories by Black Writers (Doubleday 2002) and Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe (MacAdam/Cage 2003).
His work has been recognized with numerous honors, including a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Texas Institute of Letters, and the North Carolina Humanities Council. He’s finishing a novel about the 2005 Paris riots that will be co-written with another Rodeen Literary author, Luc Bouchard, and will appear from Penguin in 2010. He teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. For more information on David and his work please visit fireonbeach.com
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David Wright is the co-author of Fire on the Beach (Scribner), which tells the story of the U.S. Life-Saving Service, formed in 1871 to assure the safe passage of American and international shipping and to save lives and salvage cargo. The book illustrates yet another example of the little-known but outstanding contributions of a remarkable group of African-Americans to our country’s history.
