DAVID SAMUEL LEVINSON is the author of the novels Tell Me How This Ends Well and Antonia Lively Breaks the Silence. He's received fellowships from Yaddo, the Jentel Foundation, Ledig House, the Santa Fe Arts Institute, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Marguerite & Lamar Smith Fellowship for Writers. He was first runner-up in The Flannery O'Connor Story Prize and placed third in The Atlantic Monthly's fiction competition for his story, "Most of Us Are Here Against Our Will," which was chosen by Mary Gaitskill. Since then, his stories and poetry have appeared in storySouth, The Brooklyn Review, Prairie Schooner, The Toronto Quarterly, West Branch, Post Road, and Fresh.Ink, among others. He served as the Fellow in Fiction at Emory University from 2013 to 2015. He teaches fiction workshops for Writing Workshops Dallas, Gemini Ink, and UCLA Online.

He's a co-founder of The Big Texas Read, a virtual online bookclub featuring Texas authors. Please join Writing Workshops Dallas and Gemini Ink for an inaugural Zoom party in which participants will read and discuss Tell Me How This Ends Well. RSVP on the site. Instructions on how to join Zoom as well as dates and times of meetings are posted. 

​"Tell Me How This Ends Well is a mastery of verbal invention and rhetorical pyrotechnics, an imagination that shocks...and a gift for humor so dark we find ourselves dancing on the edge of the grave." — Jewish Journal

"Imaginative, intelligent." — Kirkus Reviews

". . .and the jokes, knowing and hilarious, fly fast and furious in the black comic manner of Bruce Wagner, Howard Jacobson, and Bruce Jay Friedman." — Publishers Weekly ​