David B. Seaburn

DID YOU KNOW?

My latest novel, LAST ALIVE, is available for pre-order and will be released by Koehler Books on November 24, 2026.

Until It Was Gone (2024) published by Black Rose Writing. It was Short Listed for the Hawthorne Prize (2024).

Give Me Shelter (2022) was short-listed for the Somerset Award in Literary and Contemporary Fiction (2022); Finalist for the Maxy Award in Literary and Humor Fiction (2023); and Short Listed for the American Writing Awards Hawthorne Prize (2023).

Give Me Shelter is my ninth novel. The others are: Broken Pieces of God (2021), Gavin Goode (2019), Parrot Talk (2017); More More Time (2015); Chimney Bluffs (2012); Charlie No Face (2011); Pumpkin Hill (2007); and Darkness is as Light (2005).

A little about myself. I am a retired marriage and family therapist and psychologist. Most of my career was as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine, U of Rochester Medical Center. There is was Director of the Family Therapy Training (Psych) and Coordinator of the Psychosocial Medicine Rotation (Family Med). I am also an ordained minister and served a small country parish for six years and an urban church for one. At my retirement in 2010 I was Director of the Family Support Center, in our local school district.

I was an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center for almost twenty years. During my tenure there I taught in a Family Medicine Residency Program, practiced family therapy and was the Director of a Family Therapy Training Program. My primary interest was working with families dealing with illness and developing partnership between mental health professionals and medical professionals.

I am also an ordained Presbyterian minister. I graduated from seminary (Boston University) in 1975. I served a church full-time from 1975-1981 before entering the mental health field permanently. Initially I worked in community mental health before going to the University of Rochester Medical Center.

My educational background includes two master's degrees and a PhD.

I started writing seriously in seminary. But it wasn't until I entered academics that I wrote in a disciplined manner. During my career at U of Rochester Med Ctr, I wrote over 65 papers and book chapters and co-authored two professional books. I also published creative nonfiction and personal essays.

It wasn't until 2001 that I started writing fiction. My first novel, Darkness is as Light, came out in 2005. I have written ten additional novels since then.

In recent years I have also been writing short stories.