An Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship winner in poetry in 2001 and 2005, David Bond has published recent work in the anthology Hurricane Blues, poems in the books, Great Possibilities: 150 Verne Morton Photographs, and The State of Southern Illinois, plus journals Big Muddy, Valparaiso Poetry Review, The Cape Rock, Crab Orchard Review, Quiddity, storySouth, and Sou’wester, among others.
A MacDowell Fellow in 2006, David lives in Carbondale, where he claims inspiration from the beauty of the Shawnee National Forest. He has published two books, Colors and American Chicken, as well as a chapbook The Light That Shatters Darkness: Poems From the Spartan Mine. He works at Southern Illinois University’s Morris Library in the Special Collections Research Center.
