David Morse is a lecturer and the director of the Writing Program at the Jackson School. Prior to joining Yale, he taught writing at the University of Michigan for nearly 20 years. To Jackson graduate students, he offers individual tutorials throughout the academic year, as well as a seminar on persuasive policy writing in the fall and policy-focused narrative writing in the spring. His first collection of stories, The Book of Disbelieving, won the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and was published by Sarabande Books. His work has also garnered an O. Henry Prize and the Calvino Prize and has appeared in numerous literary magazines. The Washington Post published his essay on the moral and political complexities of mendacity, and his first play, Quartet, was performed by the Takács Quartet in collaboration with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. To learn more about his teaching and writing, visit: www.davidlawrencemorse.com.

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