David Adam Galef (born March 27, 1959) is an American fiction writer, critic, poet, translator, and essayist.
[citation needed] He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1981, after which he lived in Osaka, Japan, for a year.
In addition, he has written over two hundred short stories for magazines ranging from the British Punch to the Czech Prague Revue, the Canadian Prism International and the American Shenandoah.
[1] His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Newsday, The Village Voice, Twentieth Century Literature, The Columbia History of the British Novel and many other places.
His awards include a Henfield Foundation grant, a Writers Exchange award from Poets & Writers, the Meringoff Prize for fiction, and a Mississippi Arts Council grant, as well as residencies at Yaddo, Ragdale, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.