DAVID COMFORT is the author of popular nonfiction titles from Simon and Schuster, Citadel/Kensington and Writer’s Digest Books. He wrote pop culture articles for The Wrap and Culture Catch. His literary and philosophical essays appear in Pleiades, The Montreal Review, Stanford Arts Review, Free Inquiry, Johns Hopkins' Dr. T.J. Eckleburg Review, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, and The Philosopher (UK). His short fiction appears in Evergreen Review, 3AM magazine, Morning News, and Eclectica. He is a Pushcart Fiction Prize nominee, and finalist for Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren, Narrative, and Glimmer Train Awards.

HONORS

2012              Top 10 Finalist: Narrative Fiction/ Nonfiction Award

2005             Top 25 Finalist, Glimmer Train Fiction Award

2000             Finalist: America’s Best (short story: “Fields of Heaven”)

Finalist: Faulkner Awards  (“Treemen: the Movie”)

1998              Finalist: Heekin Fiction Comp (“Gateway to the Interior”)

1996              Finalist: HeliconNine (story collection, Mother’s Sons)

1995             Finalist: America’s Best. (for novel, The Contact Sport)

Finalist: Chicago Tribune Nelson  Algren Award

1994            Finalist: Graywolf Fiction Fellowship for short fiction

Honorable Mention: Belletrist Review Short Fiction

Finalist: Faulkner Awards for short fiction

Nominee: Pushcart Prize

1993            Top Ten Finalist: Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Award           (judges: Mona Simpson, Scott Turow)

1991           Winner: New England Living Magazine Fiction Contest