DAVID VANN, Assistant Professor, MFA, Cornell University, teaches creative nonfiction and fiction. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University and is the author of the nationally-bestselling memoir A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea, featured on NPR, Voice of America, and Fox News. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Outside Magazine, Outside's GO, Men's Journal, Writer's Digest, and other magazines. His short story collection, Legend of a Suicide, has won the 2007 Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction and will be published in fall 2008.

PUBLICATIONS

• Legend of a Suicide, 2007 Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction, UMass Press, 2008.
• "The Man Who Sailed Across America" (feature), Men's Journal, October 2007.
• "Moth Invasion," men.style.com (the online home of GQ and Details), July 2007.
• "Women Who Crew," Outside's GO, Summer 2007.
• "Solo in the Southern Ocean" (feature), Esquire, January, 2008 and July, 2008.
• "Hurricane Hunter" (feature), Outside, 2008.
• "The World's Top Navigator," (feature) Outside's GO, 2008.
• "How Not To Go Down With The Ship," Outside, July 2007.
• "The Rogue Wave," Men's Journal, May 2007.
• "Use Landscape to Build a Theme" and "How to Describe Landscape Beautifully," Writer's Digest, June 2007.
• "Every Good Story is at least Two Stories," writing exercise in forthcoming book by Sherry Ellis.
• A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2005.
• "Ketchikan," StoryQuarterly, 2006.
• "The Real Deal," Writer's Digest, 2006, to be reprinted March 2008 in The Craft & Business of Writing.
• "Ichthyology," The Atlantic Monthly, reprinted in The Anchorage Daily News.
• "Rhoda," 1st prize winner of River City Writing Awards, River City (judged by Susan Minot).
• "A Legend of Good Men," 1st place in Best Fiction Contest, Fish Stories: Collective I.
• "The Higher Blue," Fourteen Hills.
• "The Taste of Salmon," The Anchorage Daily News.

Current work

• Crocodile: Memoirs from a Mexican Drug-Running Port (memoir)
• Legend of a Suicide (short story collection including a novella)
• Cut Adrift (novel)

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Wallace Stegner Fellowship.
• Two Pushcart Prize nominations.
• Henfield/Transatlantic Review Award.
• 2nd place Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Prize for the novel.
• George Bennet Fellowship at Philips Exeter Academy.