David Borofka
David Borofka is the author of Hints of His Mortality (winner of the 1996 Iowa Short Fiction Award) and a novel, The Island (MacMurray & Beck). His latest collection of stories, A Longing for Impossible Things, was released in 2022, as part of the Johns Hopkins Poetry and Fiction Series and was chosen as the winner of the American Fiction Award for the Short Story by the American Book Fest; his novel, The End of Good Intentions, was published by Fomite Press in September 2023; and a new collection of stories, The Bliss of Your Attention, will be published in 2025, once again by JHUP. David recommends the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Reedley College Literary Arts.
“See if you understand this: my name is Calvin, everyone calls me Fish, but my father wrote his suicide note to Cyrano. Do you understand? Do you understand what I’m saying, that I am not, and never have been, a good son?”
