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David writes:
My arrival in this area has in a curious way brought me full circle, after a great deal of traveling that is perhaps natural for someone born at the confluence of the Mississippi River and Route 66. My father had a factory job in Granite City, but got laid off days after my arrival. I grew up in various trailer parks around the south-Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Indiana. My parents eventually grew tired of wandering and returned to rural Southern Illinois where both had grown up. My family farm is a 2-1/2 hour drive from Kirkwood.
I got my BA in English from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, a Master of Fine Arts from the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, and a Ph.D. in creative writing and Old English from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. I spent twenty four years as an English professor, working at colleges in Arkansas and Texas. Over the years I have published poetry, essays, and novels.
I grew up in an evangelical tradition and started questioning that faith in my teens. I first became interested in Unitarian Universalism as a student at SIU and joined a fellowship in 1988. Since then I have been active on the boards of two fellowships and have long wished to go into ministry In 2005 I decided to take the plunge and go back to school I attended Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago for two years and have finished my course work there - which brings me to here!
I am a member of PEN Center USA, a writer's group committed to free speech issues around the world, and I serve on the board of Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community. I'm passionate about issues of worker justice, perhaps because I still haven't gotten over my dad getting laid off in 1958.
My email address is . You may also reach me at 314-821-0911.