David Schuman

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David Schuman

David Schuman

Director of the Creative Writing Concentration
Teaching Professor in English

Pronouns: he/him
research interests:
  • Fiction Writing
  • Non-Fiction Writing
  • Microfiction

contact info:

mailing address:

  • Washington University
    CB 1122
    One Brookings Drive
    St. Louis, MO 63130-4899

David Schuman currently directs the MFA program and coordinates the creative writing concentration for undergraduate English majors.

Schuman’s fiction, nonfiction and reviews have appeared in Catapult, Fence, Joyland, Missouri Review, Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, The Rumpus and many other publications. His work has been anthologized, most recently in Walking on Lava: Selected Works for Uncivilized Times, published by the Dark Mountain Project. He has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and his story, “Stay,” was listed as a distinguished story in Best American Short Stories. He was recently awarded a MacDowell fellowship.  Schuman's prose chapbook, Best Men, is published by Tammy Press. He teaches a range of fiction and nonfiction courses, including The Short-Short, Sudden Fiction and Microfiction and Stories in the Suburbs.

Best Men

Best Men

David Schuman’s Best Men simmers with observations about why people act the way they do at weddings. Over the course of five stories, Schuman introduces a cast of widely different “best men” who find themselves swept up in events beyond their control. At once surprising and suspenseful, Best Men upends popular notions of what constitutes wedding ceremonies, while also demonstrating the packed power of shorter stories.

 

Read an interview with David Schuman about Best Men in the Chicago Review of Books here: 
https://chireviewofbooks.com/2021/08/30/weddings-wolves-and-walla-walla…