David Samuel Levinson is the author of the forthcoming novel, Antonia Lively Breaks The Silence (Algonquin Books, 2009) and the acclaimed story collection, Most Of Us Are Here Against Our Will (Viking Penguin UK, 2005). His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, The Brooklyn Review, The James White Review, Image, Intersection, www.collectionstories.com, storySouth, and The New Penguin Book of Short Stories edited by David Leavitt. He's won awards for his fiction in The Atlantic Monthly and Zoetrope: All-Story and was a top finalist in the 2006 Pirate's Alley competition in writing. Recently, through the Bronx Writers' Center, he won the Chapter One prize for his novel-in-progress, The Immense Edifice, and was the recipient of a New York Times Residency For a Writer Fellowship from Yaddo. He received his MFA from The New School and has taught creative writing at New York University and The George Washington University. He is the 2008-2009 recipient of the Emerging Writer Lectureship at Gettysburg College.