David Zimmerman

David Zimmerman is an American author originally from Georgia. His debut novel, The Sandbox, about an American soldier stationed in Iraq, was published in 2010. His work has been reviewed by the LA Times as an "adroit" depiction of conditions for soldiers in Iraq^[1] and by the New York Times.^[2] His work has been discussed in The Dallas News,^[3] has received a starred review^[4] from Publishers Weekly, and was reviewed by Booklist as a portrayal of "both the eternal verities of war as well as the stark differences that each war imposes on the young who do the fighting".^[5] Currently, he is an English professor in Ames, Iowa. He taught creative writing in the spring of 2016 at Iowa State.

Education

David Zimmerman attended Emerson College for film studies and then went on to earn an MFA in creative writing at the University of Alabama.^[6]

Career

He has worked as a publicist at St. Martin’s Press in NYC and taught writing at Georgia Southern University, Dilla University College in Ethiopia, South College in Savannah and the University of Wisconsin, where he was also a fiction fellow at the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing.^[6]

Works

• Socket (2002) ISBN 978-1895636420
• The Sandbox (2010) ISBN 978-1-56947-628-4
• Caring is Creepy (2012) ISBN 978-1569479773

References

1. Jacob Silverman, "Book review: 'The Sandbox' by David Zimmerman", LA Times, May 16, 2010.
2. Joel Turnipseed, "Collateral Damage", New York Times, April 16, 2010.
3. Alan Cheuse, "Fiction: 'The Sandbox,' by David Zimmerman", Dallas News, May 2, 2010.
4. Publishers Weekly, 2/08/2010.
5. Booklist Review.
6. "MFA Faculty | Department of English". www.engl.iastate.edu. Retrieved 2016-07-22.