David Eye

DAVID EYE earned a midlife MFA from Syracuse University in 2008. His debut poetry collection, Seed, is forthcoming in 2017 from The Word Works, selected by Eduardo Corral. His chapbook, Rain Leaping Up When a Cab Goes Past, was released in 2013 from Seven Kitchens Press, and his poems have appeared in BLOOM, Cider Press Review, The Good Men Project, Lambda Literary, The Louisville Review, Puerto del Sol, Stone Canoe, and other journals and anthologies. David is the winner of the 2014 Hudson Valley Writers Guild Non-Fiction Award in humor. He has received scholarships to the 2014 Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the 2016 West Chester University Poetry Conference and he was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as a finalist in the 2015-2016 Tennessee Williams Poetry Contest. David has taught creative writing, academic writing, and literature at St. John’s University, Manhattan College, Syracuse University, and Cazenovia College. He grew up in rural Virginia, and lives (for now) at the edge of a forest in the Catskill Mountains.