David Brendan Hopes

David Brendan Hopes is a poet, a playwright, and an author of fiction and nonfiction prose. His theatrical works have been produced in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and regionally, including Asheville, NC, where he lives. He has twice received the North Carolina New Play Project Prize, as well as the Holland New Voices Playwriting Award, the Sprenger Foundation Award for Historical Drama, the Desert Star Award for Best Original Writing, the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Award for...See more

David Brendan Hopes is a poet, a playwright, and an author of fiction and nonfiction prose. His theatrical works have been produced in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and regionally, including Asheville, NC, where he lives. He has twice received the North Carolina New Play Project Prize, as well as the Holland New Voices Playwriting Award, the Sprenger Foundation Award for Historical Drama, the Desert Star Award for Best Original Writing, the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Award for Playwriting, and the Siena Playwrights' Prize. Poetry accolades include the Juniper Prize and the Saxifrage Prize. Originally from Ohio, Hopes taught at Hiram College, Syracuse University, Phillips Exeter Academy, and the University of North Carolina at Asheville. His published novels include The Falls of Wyona, which won the Quill Prize from Red Hen Press; Night, Sleep and The Dreams of Lovers; and The One with the Beautiful Necklaces. His nature essays, A Sense of the Morning and Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, appeared from Milkweed Editions and his memoir, A Childhood in the Milky Way, from Akron University Press. See less