David Barr Kirtley
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David Barr Kirtley (b. 1977) is an American short story writer. Most of his published work has elements of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, and commonly deals with themes of identity, consciousness, reality, helplessness, and betrayal.
He grew up in Katonah, New York. From 1996-2000, he attended Colby College in Waterville, Maine, where he majored in Government, with a minor in Creative Writing.
In 1997, he won the Isaac Asimov Award for Undergraduate Science Fiction, sponsored by Asimov's magazine, for his story, Lest We Forget, about erasing unpleasant memories. (He later adapted the story into a screenplay for an independent film version that was shown at the New York Independent Film and Video Festival in 2002.)
In 1999, he attended the Clarion Workshop at Michigan State University. In 2003, his story The Black Bird, a philosophical mystery involving Sam Spade and Poe's Raven, appeared in the anthology New Voices in Science Fiction.
Other works include The Second Rat, about a man who can rewind time, Seven Brothers, Cruel and Seeds-for-Brains, dark retellings of, respectively, The Douglas Tragedy and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Veil of ignorance was about a group of friends who take a drug that causes them to share each other's thoughts and lose track of who they are.
