David Stevenson - Western Illinois University

College of Arts and Sciences

Fall 2019 Case Writer: David Stevenson

David Stevenson was born in Detroit and worked briefly in the Dearborn Stamping Plant, at the time the largest factory in the world. His fiction collection, Letters from Chamonix, won the Banff Mountain Book Award for Fiction and Poetry in 2014. His collected mountaineering essays, Warnings Against Myself: Meditations on a Life in Climbing was published in 2016 by the University of Washington Press. He received the H. Adams Carter Literary Award from the American Alpine Club in 2017. Two of his recent essays have been marked as Notable in the The Best American Essays Series. His novel, Forty Crows was published in early 2018 by DreamStreet Press. He works at the University of Alaska Anchorage where he directs the MFA program in creative writing.

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