David James Poissant

David James Poissant is the author of The Heaven of Animals (2014). His stories have appeared in Playboy, the Chicago Tribune, Willow Springs, Chattahoochee Review, Redivider, and in the anthologies Best American Voices and New Stories from the South. He has won the Playboy College Fiction Contest, the George Garrett Fiction Award, the Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Contest, and was a runner-up for the 2006 Nelson Algren Award.