David Breeden

David Breeden has an MFA from The Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, a Ph.D. from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi, with additional study at Breadloaf and in writing and Buddhism at Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. He also has a Master of Divinity from Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago. His poetry, essays, and short fiction have appeared in such journals as Mississippi Review, Nebo, Poet Lore, Mid-American Review, North Atlantic Review, Boston Literary Review, Turnstile, Nidus, and Paragraph. He has published four novels and twelve books of poetry. He is on the editorial board of Virtual Artists Collective. His book This Is Just To Say: Variations on a Theme of William Carlos Williams was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Award in Religion and The Arts from the American Academy of Religion. His book News from the Kingdom of God: Meditations on The Gospel of Thomas recently appeared from Wipf and Stock Publishers. His book Raging for the Exit, a collaborative work with Steven Schroeder, is forthcoming. Breeden is a Unitarian Universalist parish minister in Minnesota.