David Huddle
David Huddle is the author of seven poetry collections, six short story collections, five novels, a novella, and a collection of essays titled The Writing Habit. He won the 2012 Library of Virginia Award for Fiction for Nothing Can Make Me Do This and the 2013 Pen New England Award for Poetry for Blacksnake at the Family Reunion.
Reading List
Swallows
Hired specifically to teach “Paper, Clay, Wood, and Cloth,” a class in basic craft skills, to eight- and nine-year-olds, I was 16 when I worked as a counselor/teacher at the Rock Point summer camp. Even though I didn’t like having …
Prone
Prone to a mildly paranoid view of the universe and her place in it, Ms. Hicks figures the weather is out to teach her a lesson. She can’t imagine what she’s supposed to learn, but she thinks it probably has …
Bear Goes Metaphysical
Huddle – Bear Goes Metaphysical If I’m not a bear, thought the bear– and wistfulness rose in him, maybe he was a falcon, a redwood, a slug, a raccoon–but then his bear brain made him look down at his chest …
Strangers at Twilight
Huddle – Strangers at Twilight The black mare with the white diamond lets me bump foreheads with her across the fence, Then we’re at a loss. I was lonely the whole afternoon. All day her girl didn’t come to ride. …