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David Havird grew up in Columbia, South Carolina, and studied at the University of South Carolina under James Dickey.  He completed his graduate studies at the University of Virginia with a doctoral dissertation on Thomas Hardy.  While not a prolific poet, he has published for many years in major journals, having broken into print in 1975 with a poem inThe New Yorker.  His collection of fourteen poems,Penelope’s Design(2010), won the 2009 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize.  He lives in Shreveport, Louisiana, where he teaches at Centenary College.