David Schuman directs the creative writing specialization for undergraduate English majors.
Schuman’s short fiction, personal essays, 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 MacDowell fellowship, a Pushcart Prize and has had several works listed as distinguished in the Best American series. 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 Fiction and the Law and directs the Howard Nemerov Scholarship Program at Wash U. As a visual artist, he's worked as a scenic painter on several productions at Upstream Theater in St. Louis.