David Hawkins

DAVID HAWKINS is the author of the non-fiction chapbook, Lorraine Nelson: A Biography in Post-it® Notes, selected by Michael Martone for the Cupboard’s Literary Pamphlet competition (2011). His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of journals and periodicals, including Barrow Street, Bat City Review, Chelsea, DIAGRAM, The Huffington Post, and The Pedestal Magazine, among others. His long poems have appeared in At Length Magazine, The Seattle Review, and have been nominated for the Best New Poets Anthology (Meridian Press/UVA Press) and The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. His poetry collection, Dark Adaptations, has been a finalist in the 2011 Brittingham & Pollak prizes, the 2011 New American Poetry Prize, the 2010 Blue Lynx Prize, and in each of the last three (’09, ’10, and ’11) Dorset Prize competitions (Tupelo Press). Selected by Allen Grossman as the first runner-up in the 2008 Bellday Books poetry prize, the collection is the recipient of the ’08 Utah Arts Council prize for a book of poems. He is an Assistant Professor/Lecturer at the University of Utah, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of Quarterly West  from ‘01-’05. He lives in Salt Lake City with his wife and their two boys.