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Professor
PDL A-414
543-2247 (voice mail)
Email: dshields@davidshields.com
B.A., (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), Brown University, 1978
MFA, (Honors in Fiction), University of Iowa, 1980
PEN, Authors League, Writers Guild of America, Poets & Writers, Associated Writing Programs, MLA
Personal essay, memoir, collage, blurred-genre work, fiction
David Shields is the author of eight books, including Black Planet, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and PEN/USA Award; Remote, winner of the PEN/Revson Award; and Dead Languages, winner of the Governor’s Writers Award. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship, two NEA fellowships, an Ingram Merrill Foundation fellowship, and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship. His essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Yale Review, Village Voice, Utne Reader, Tin House, Threepenny Review, Salon, Slate, McSweeney’s, and Believer.