David Milofsky

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David Milofsky is an American writer. He is the author of "A Friend of Kissinger", "Playing from Memory", "Eternal People" and "Color of Law". As a journalist, his articles and reviews have appeared widely and he has also served as editor of the literary journals, Denver Quarterly and Colorado Review. Born in New York City in 1946, Milofsky grew up and was educated in public schools in Wisconsin. He holds degrees in English from The University of Wisconsin and the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has taught at Middlebury College, Iowa State University, The University of Wisconsin, the University of Denver and Colorado State University, where he is currently Professor of English. He lives in Denver with his wife and their three children.

He is the winner of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

Milofsky has received the Prairie Schooner Short Fiction Award and the Colorado Book Award.