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Listed as:

Fiction Writer

Public address:

Taylor, MI

Michigan US

Email:

SosnowskiD@aol.com

Bio:

David Sosnowski has worked as a gag writer, fireworks salesman, telephone pollster, university writing instructor, and environmental protection specialist, while living in cities as varied as Washington, DC; Detroit, Michigan; and Fairbanks, Alaska. He is the author of four critically acclaimed novels, Rapture, Vamped, Happy Doomsday, and, most recently, Buzz Kill (coming January 2020 from 47North).

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Favorite authors:

In no particular order: Thomas Lynch, Charles Baxter, Mary Doria Russell, Michael Chabon, George Saunders, Philip Roth, Elmore Leonard, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Christopher Moore, Barbara Kingsolver, Jess Walter, Anne Lamott, Karen Joy Fowler, Jonathan Lethem, Chad Harbach, Jeffrey Eugenides, Sam Lipsyte, Richard Price, Roberto Bolano, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Carl Sagan...

Born in:

Dearborn, MI

Michigan

Raised in:

Taylor, MI

Michigan

Website:

https://www.wingznfangz.com [2]

Prizes won:

Vamped awarded Lord Ruthven Award for Fiction, International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, March 2005.

Vamped named Fangoria Magazine’s Book of the Month, August 2004.

Vamped named Amazon’s Breakout Book of the Summer 2004, June 2004.

Pushcart Prize nominee for fiction, 1995.

Arts Foundation of Michigan, grant recipient, 1995.

First place, Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize, 1994 (judge: Barbara Kingsolver).

Third place, River City Fiction Prize, Memphis, Tennessee, 1992 (judge: David Leavitt).

First and third place, Fejes Fiction Prize, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, 1985 (judge: Hilma Wolitzer).

Education:

University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Agent/Agency name:

Jane Dystel at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret LLC

What I'm reading now:

Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon

Writers Retreats:

Ragdale

Identifies as:

Polish American

Prefers to work with:

Any