Dave Wright
Born (1985-05-16) May 16, 1985
Nashville Tennessee
OccupationWriter/Publisher
NationalityAmerican
Period2013–present
Website
digthatbook.com

Dave Wright (born May 16, 1985) is an American poet, writer, and publisher. He is the author of one book of poems titled Riverwalkers,[1][2][3] and one chapbook of poems titled Pixels, which was published by Reality Hands in 2014.[4] He lives in Dickson, TN and Sewanee, Tennessee during the summer, where he attends the Sewanee School of Letters at Sewanee: The University of the South. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of indie publishing company Dig That Book Co., LLC.

Life

Wright grew up on a farm in Dickson, TN. He attended undergraduate school at Tennessee Technological University, where he earned a BS in Communication Sciences. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Fiction at Sewanee School of Letters in Sewanee, Tennessee. He is a member of The Porch Writer's Collective in Nashville, TN.

Work

Wright's work has been featured in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature,[5][6] Black Heart Magazine,[7] Best of Black Heart 2014,[8] The Newer York,[9][10] HUSMW,[11] Cutty Spot Interviews,[12] Calliope Magazine, The Caper Literary Journal's Anthology VWA: Poems for Haiti

He was the featured poet at East Side Storytellin' #42: Where The River Life Ran Through Us All, a popular reading and music series in East Nashville.[13][14]

Dig That Book Co., LLC

Wright founded the independent publishing company Dig That Book Co. in August 2013.

List of current titles:

  • #urananimal by Nicholas Spence
  • Furthest Agent by D.C DeMarse
  • It Doesn't Matter What You Look Like On The Outside It's What's On The Internet That Counts by Beach Sloth[15]
  • I Will Always Be in Love[16] by Alexandra Naughton[17]
  • The End of the World by Megan Lent
  • The Ghosts That Surrounded Them[18] by Timmy Reed[19] (Winner of the 2015 Baker Artist Grant)[20]

Forthcoming titles:

  • NUMBSKULL by No Glykon
  • Taco Jehovah[21] by Josh Spilker

Bibliography

  • Riverwalkers (poems, Dig That Book Co. 2013)
  • Pixels (poems, Reality Hands, 2014)

References

  1. ↑ Sloth, Beach. "Riverwalkers Review". Beach Sloth. Beach Sloth. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
  2. ↑ Wright, Dave (December 13, 2013). Riverwalkers. ISBN 978-0692215272.
  3. ↑ Wright, Dave. "Riverwalkers". Dig That Book Co. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
  4. ↑ Wright, Dave. "Pixels". Reality Hands. Reality Hands. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
  5. ↑ Wright, Dave. "Dorothy Jane McAlister is World Famous". The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. Archived from the original on June 21, 2015. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
  6. ↑ Wright, Dave. "3 Poems". The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. Valerie MacEwan. Archived from the original on June 21, 2015. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
  7. ↑ Roberts, Laura. "Tinkerbell: A Character Crush". Black Heart Magazine. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
  8. ↑ Roberts, Laura. "The Best of Black Heart". Black Heart Magazine. Black Heart Magazine. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
  9. ↑ Wright, Dave. "The Cubehouse: A 705-word Idiosyncratic Synopsis of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake". theEEEL. The NewerYork. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
  10. ↑ Wright, Dave. "Building a Fairytale, or Comparing a Modern Version of Beauty and the Beast to the Film Gigli". theEEEL. The NewerYork. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
  11. ↑ Wright, Dave. "Wanderlust, or Our Private Babylon". HUSMW #7. HUSMW. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
  12. ↑ Sherling, Matthew. "Dave Wright Interview". Cutty Spot. Matthew Sherling. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
  13. ↑ Beard, Chuck. "East Side Storytellin #42". East Side Story. Chuck Beard. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
  14. ↑ Beard, Chuck. "East Side Storytellin #42". SoundCloud. East Side Story. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
  15. ↑ Sloth, Beach. "It Doesn't Matter What You Look Like on the Outside, It's What's on the Internet That Counts". Beach Sloth. Dig That Book Co. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
  16. ↑ Naughton, Alexandra. I Will Always Be in Love. Dig That Book Co. ISBN 0990775550.
  17. ↑ Naughton, Alexandra. "The Tsaritsa". The Tsaritsa. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
  18. ↑ Reed, Timmy (April 14, 2015). The Ghosts That Surrounded Them. Dig That Book Co. ISBN 978-0990775539.
  19. ↑ Reed, Timmy. "Underrated Animals Press". Underrated Animals Press. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
  20. ↑ Reed, Timmy. "The Baker Artist Grant". The Baker Artist Grant. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
  21. ↑ Spilker, Josh. "Taco Jehovah". Josh Spilker. Dig That Book Co. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
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