David Brendan Hopes

He is the author of Bird Songs of the Mesozoic,[1] Abbott's Dance , Man in Flight , Edward The King, 7 Reece Mews ,[2] A Dream of Adonis,[3] A Sense of the Morning[4] and A Childhood in the Milky Way.

Milkweed Editions published two collections of nature essays, A Sense of the Morning and Bird Songs of the Mesozoic.

As a playwright, his works include Abbott’s Dance, 7 Reece Mews, Edward the King, and The Loves of Mr Lincoln (all staged in New York).

Other dramatic works, St Patrick’s Well, Bronzino’s Gaze, Uranium 235, Washington Place and Night Music have been staged at regional venues.

His novel The Falls of the Wyona won Red Hen Press's 2017 Quill Prose Award for Queer Fiction.