David Long

Born in Boston, 1948, only child, raised in rural Massachusetts. Off to college [Albion, MI], married Susy Schweinsberg, managed to stay out of the war, off to grad school [Missoula, MT], became a student of Dick Hugo, Bill Kittredge, Madeline Defrees, worked for MT's Writers in the Schools program, moved to the Flathead Valley [Kalispell, MT], had two boys, Montana and Jackson, wrote short stories, played in a blues band [Tut & the Uncommons], watched the boys grow up . . . finally left MT in 1999 for Tacoma, WA, where, one morning in August 2006, I sit in the Mandolin Cafe writing this.