David Borofka
David Borofka’s first collection of stories, Hints of His Mortality, was selected by Oscar Hijuelos as winner of the 1996 Iowa Award for short fiction, and his novel, The Island, was published by MacMurray & Beck. In 2022, Johns Hopkins published his second collection of stories, A Longing for Impossible Things, winner of an American Fiction Award for the Short Story by American Book Fest; the final story in the collection, “Attachments for the Platonically Inclined,” was included in Coolest American Stories 2023 under the title, “Attachment.” His novel, The End of Good Intentions was published by Fomite Press in 2023. His stories have appeared in Image, Southern Review, Massachusetts Review, Black Warrior Review, Missouri Review, Manoa, Gettysburg Review, and Shenandoah, among other places.
