David Shields

David Shields (born July 22, 1956) is an American author of twenty-five books, including ''Reality Hunger'' (2010), ''The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead'' (2008), and ''Black Planet'' (1999). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, twice an NEA Fellow, a PEN Revson Award winner, a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award and the PEN West Award, and a senior contributing editor of ''Conjunctions''.

Shields is a visiting professor at Warren Wilson College and Vermont College of Fine Arts' MFA programs. Since 2010, he has been the Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington. Provided by Wikipedia