Socket

Fiction. African American Studies. Winner, 3-Day Novel-Writing Contest (2001). SOCKET tells the gripping tale of Ronald Percy, an international aid worker who travels to Ethiopia to assist with an irrigation project for the African Development Organization. Upon arrival, he is unable to locate his agents or company representatives, and soon finds himself enmeshed in a web of bureaucracy and state corruption. SOCKET was selected as the Grand Winner from over 400 entries in the 2001 International 3-Day Novel Writing Contest.

"engrossing"—The Globe and Mail

"The language is vivid and economical, and the plot charges ahead with relentless momentum."—Broken Pencil

"The story is so tightly written that you can't put it down."—Geist

David Zimmerman attended Emerson College for film studies and then went on to earn an MFA in creative writing at the University of Alabama. 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. His books include a novella, SOCKET (Anvil Press, 2002) and a novel, The Sandbox (Soho Press, 2010). He currently teaches at Iowa State University in the Creative Writing and Environmental Studies department.