He is the author of The Heaven of Animals: Stories (Simon & Schuster, 2015), currently in print in five languages, winner of the GLCA New Writers Award and a Florida Book Award, longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize. His stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, One Story, Ploughshares, The Southern Review and in numerous textbooks and anthologies including Best New American Voices and Best American Experimental Writing. He lives in Orlando with his wife and daughters. He is currently completing a novel, also forthcoming from Simon & Schuster. He can be reached at David.Poissant@ucf.edu.