David Borofka

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David Borofka is an American novelist and short story writer. He is the author of the short story collection, Hints of His Mortality, which won the Iowa Short Fiction Award in 1996, [1] and the novel, The Island (1997). [2] [3]

Borofka has won the Missouri Review’s Editors’ Prize, Carolina Quarterly’s Charles B. Wood Award for Distinguished Writing, the Emerging Writers Network Fiction Prize, Prism Review Fiction Award, and the Nancy D. Hargrove Award from Jabberwock Review. His short fiction has also appeared in Image, Southern Review, Manoa, and Glimmer Train. He was a professor of composition, literature and creative writing at Reedley College until his retirement in 2019, but he continues to teach for the Writers' Program at UCLA Extension. [4] [5]

A second collection of stories, A Longing for Impossible Things, was released by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2022, [6] [7] [8] and was awarded an American Book Award for the Short Story by American Book Fest. [9] A new novel, The End of Good Intentions, was published in 2023 by Fomite Press. The newest collection of stories, The Bliss of Your Attention, was published in January 2025 by Johns Hopkins UP.

References

  1. ↑ "Men Without a Clue". archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2023-09-11.
  2. ↑ Beschloss, Michael. And bear in mind. NY Times. February 2, 1997
  3. ↑ NOVEL ABOUT GROWING UP IS FULL OF WIT, Fresno Bee, Sept 28, 1997
  4. ↑ Briefs, Fresno Bee, Jan 11, 2009
  5. ↑ David, Borofka (1996). "Hints of His Mortality". Archived from the original on June 27, 2010.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ↑ ""A Longing for Impossible Things: Stories" By: David Borofka". Alabama Public Radio. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  7. ↑ "A review of A Longing for Impossible Things by David Borofka – Compulsive Reader". 11 July 2022. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
  8. ↑ "Comedies of Seeking: New Fiction at the Borderlands of Belief". Image Journal. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
  9. ↑ "American Book Fest". americanbookfest.com. Retrieved 2023-05-10.


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