DAVID SAMUEL LEVIN­SON is the author of the nov­el, Anto­nia Live­ly Breaks the Silence and the sto­ry col­lec­tion, Most of Us Are Here Against Our Will. He has been nom­i­nat­ed for the Push­cart Prize and has received fel­low­ships from Yad­do, the Jen­tel Foun­da­tion, Ledig House, the San­ta Fe Arts Insti­tute, the Sewa­nee Writ­ers’ Con­fer­ence and the Mar­guerite and Lamar Smith Fel­low­ship for Writ­ers. He has for­mer­ly served as the Emerg­ing Writer Lec­tur­er at Get­tys­burg Col­lege and as the Fel­low in Fic­tion at Emory University.