David Mark Dannov graduated with a creative writing degree from CSULB in 1994. He was a waiter, a commercial painter, a landscaper, a pizza delivery driver, a valet, a caterer, a gardener, a plant tech, a substitute teacher, and a rehabilitation specialist. He’s been published by Chiron Review as a featured poet, Pearl, Black Spring Press, Black Cross Magazine, Hay Wire Press, The Brown Bottle, Peaky Hide, Bottle of Smoke Press, Pooka Press, Outside Writers, Tears in the Fence, and several other poetry magazines. In 1999, he won the Lucid Moon Poetry Contest for a poem entitled, There Are So Many Canyons And Valleys In The Skin Of An Orange. Two excerpts from his novel, Awake, were published in a Paul Krassner book entitled, Mushrooms and Other Highs: Toad Slime to Ecstasy, which came out in 2003. David’s first chapbooks of poems, There Are Poets Who Live Amongst The Dead, and Wanted: Dead or Alive were published by Black Joke Press in 2006; his first novel Awake is available at
www.blackjokepress.com,
and his children’s novel will be published sometime in 2008 under a pseudonym by Touch Smart Publishing.
David currently lives in a studio in Long Beach. He paints, sculpts, and plays in a band called Fossil Face.
daviddannov's Genres: confessional, realist, Bukowskiesque
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