David Borofka is an America novelist and short story writer. He is the author of the short story collection, Hints of His Mortality, which won the

Iowa Short Fiction Award The Iowa Short Fiction Award is an annual award given for a first collection of short fiction. It has been described as "a respected prize" by the ''Chicago Tribune'', and ''The New York Times'' considered it "among the most prestigious literary p ...

in 1996, and the novel, The Island (1997). Borofka has won the

Missouri Review ''The Missouri Review'' is a literary magazine founded in 1978 by the University of Missouri. It publishes fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction quarterly. With its open submission policy, ''The Missouri Review'' receives 12,000 manuscripts ...

’s Editors’ Prize, Carolina Quarterly’s Charles B. Wood Award for Distinguished Writing, the Emerging Writers Network Fiction Prize, Prism Review Fiction Award, and the Nancy D. Hargrove Award from Jabberwock Review. His short fiction has also appeared in Image,

Southern Review ''The Southern Review'' is a quarterly literary magazine that was established by Robert Penn Warren in 1935 at the behest of Charles W. Pipkin and funded by Huey Long as a part of his investment in Louisiana State University. It publishes ficti ...

, Manoa, and

Glimmer Train ''Glimmer Train'' was an American short story literary journal. It was published quarterly, accepting works primarily from emerging writers. Stories published in ''Glimmer Train'' were listed in ''The Best American Short Stories'', as well as appe ...

. He was a professor of composition, literature and creative writing at

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until his retirement in 2019. A collection of stories, A Longing for Impossible Things, was released by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2022, and was awarded an American Book Award for the Short Story by American Book Fest. A new novel, The End of Good Intentions, will be published in 2023 by Fomite Press. Another new collection of stories, The Bliss of Your Attention, will be published in 2025 by Johns Hopkins UP.

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