David Hawkins

Salt Lake City Utah

David Hawkins’ is the author of the non-fiction chapbook, Lorraine Nelson: A Biography in Post-it® Notes, winner of the Cupboard’s Literary Pamphlet competition, selected by Michael Martone (2011) and the poetry collection, the book of the missing, winner of a Utah Arts Council award for poetry and a finalist for the Poetry Foundation’s Emily Dickinson prize. His poetry has appeared in a number of journals and periodicals, including At Length, Barrow Street, Bat City Review, Chelsea, DIAGRAM, The Pedestal, SPORK, and The Seattle Review, among others. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of Quarterly West (from ‘01-05), and is currently an Assistant Professor/Lecturer in the University of Utah's Dept. of Writing and Honors College. He serves as the board chair of the Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts (MICA) and lives in Salt Lake City with his wife and their two boys. He is an irregular blogger at PerilousCuriosity.

  • Work
    • University of Utah
  • Education
    • Paul Vi High School
    • George Washington University
    • University of Utah
    • Bowling Green State University