David Winner’s novel, The Cannibal of Guadalajara, which won the 2009 Gival Press Novel award, received advanced praise from John Casey, Joy Williams and Shirley Hazzard. It was nominated for the National Book Award and was a finalist for the USA Best Book Award. His work has appeared in The Village Voice, Fiction, Confrontation, Cortland Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, Bookforum, Dream Catcher, Staple and several other journals in the US and the UK as well as being included in an upcoming Pearson/Prentice Hall anthology for college students. He is the fiction editor of The American, http://www.theamericanmag.com, a monthly magazine based in Rome.
