David Means is a fiction writer based in Nyack, NY. His short stories have appeared in a number of publications including Esquire, the New Yorker and Harper’s, and his work has been translated into eight languages. He has received a number of awards, among them the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction for his second collection, Assorted Fire Events, which has recently been reissued. His fourth book The Spot won an O.Henry Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book for 2010. His prose, with its evocative imagery and lack of sentimentality has been compared to that of Eudora Welty and John Cheever. In April David received a prestigious Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. He is married with children and has been a part time member of the English Department at Vassar College since 2001.
