David Brendan Hopes
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David Brendan Hopes is professor of literature and language at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, an actor, painter, and widely produced playwright. He is the author of the Juniper Prize- and Saxifrage Prize-winning book, The Glacier's Daughters, and of Blood Rose (Urthona Press, 1997), the Pulitzer- and National Book Award-nominated A Childhood in the Milky Way (Akron University Press), and the volumes of nature essays, A Sense of the Morning (1999) and Bird Songs of the Mesozoic, from Milkweed Editions. His latest full-length poetry collection A Dream of Adonis appeared from Pecan Grove Press in 2007. His work has appeared in periodicals such as The New Yorker, Audubon, Christopher Street, Connecticut Review and The Sun.
Winning Entry: In the First Days of the War, Memorial Day
Contest Won: War Poetry Contest 2008, Second Prize
