David Harris Ebenbach
{{short description|American poet}}
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David Harris Ebenbach (born April 19, 1972) is a U.S. writer of fiction and poetry, a teacher, and an editor. He is the author of nine books, and he is the recipient of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, the Juniper Prize and the Patricia Bibby Award.
Ebenbach's first science fiction novel, How to Mars, was published in 2021.
Life
Ebenbach was born and raised in Philadelphia.
He graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a Ph.D. in Psychology, and from Vermont College with an MFA.
He was a visiting professor at Earlham College,{{Cite web |url=http://pressroom.earlham.edu/content/david-harris-ebenbach-and-poetry-earlham |title=David Harris Ebenbach and Poetry at Earlham | Earlham College Pressroom |access-date=2009-10-03 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20100530165748/http://pressroom.earlham.edu/content/david-harris-ebenbach-and-poetry-earlham |archive-date=2010-05-30 |url-status=dead }} living in Ohio.
He currently teaches creative writing at Georgetown University,{{cite web|title=David H Ebenbach|url=http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/dhe8/?PageTemplateID=155|publisher=Georgetown University|accessdate=4 February 2013}} where he works in the [https://cjc.georgetown.edu/research/faculty/ebenbach Center for Jewish Civilization], and promotes student-centered teaching at the [https://cndls.georgetown.edu/people/dhe8/ Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship].
Awards
- Juniper Prize for Fiction, for The Guy We Didn't Invite To The Orgy
- Patricia Bibby Award, for We Were The People Who Moved
- Washington Writers’ Publishing House Fiction Prize, for Into the Wilderness
- Drue Heinz Literature Prize, for Between Camelots
- GLCA New Writer's Award.
Works
=Fiction=
- {{cite book| title=Between Camelots | publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press| year=2005| isbn=978-0-8229-4268-9 }} (short stories)
- {{cite book| title=Into the Wilderness | publisher=Washington Writers' Publishing House| year=2012| isbn=9780931846656 }} (short stories)
- {{cite book| title=The Guy We Didn't Invite to the Orgy and other stories | publisher= University of Massachusetts Press |year=2017| isbn= 978-1-62534-261-4 }} (short stories)
- Miss Portland. Orison Books. 2017. {{ISBN|978-0-9964397-1-8}} (novel)
- How to Mars. Tachyon Publications. 2021. {{ISBN|978-1-61696-356-9}} (novel)
=Non-fiction=
- {{cite book| title=The Artist's Torah | publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers| year=2012| isbn=978-1-62032-205-5 }} (non-fiction guide to creativity)
= Poetry =
- Autogeography. Northwestern University Press. 2013. {{ISBN|978-1622292011}}
- We Were the People Who Moved. Tebot Bach. 2015. {{ISBN|978-1939678195}}
- Some Unimaginable Animal. Orison Books. 2019. {{ISBN|978-1949039238}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.davidebenbach.com/ "Author's website"]
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Category:American short story writers
Category:Poets from Philadelphia
Category:Earlham College faculty
Category:American male short story writers