Hopes, David Brendan

Born and raised in Akron, Ohio, David Brendan Hopes now lives in Asheville, North Carolina, where he is Professor of Literature at the University of North Carolina and director of Urthona Press, the Black Swan Theater Company, and the Downtown School of the Arts. After completing his BA at Hiram College, Hopes earned an MA at Johns Hopkins University and an MA and PhD at Syracuse University. His first book of poems, The Glacier s Daughters, won the Juniper Prize and the Saxifrage Prize. He has published a nonfiction book, A Sense of the Morning, and a second collection of poetry, Blood Rose.