David Southward

David Southward grew up in southwest Florida and earned degrees in English from Northwestern (BA ’90) and Yale (PhD ’97). Since 1998 he has taught literature, film, and comics in the Honors College at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. David's poems have appeared in Gyroscope Review, Hummingbird, Light, The Lyric, Measure, THINK, and other publications. His chapbook, Apocrypha (Wipf & Stock 2018), reimagines scenes from the life of Jesus in a sequence of sonnets. In 2017 he was awarded the Lorine Niedecker Prize from the Council for Wisconsin Writers and the Muse Prize from the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets; his poem "Mary's Visit" won the 2019 Frost Farm Prize for Metrical Poetry. In his spare time David enjoys cooking, gardening, and traveling with his husband, Geoff.