DS Levinson has  published two novels Tell Me How This Ends Well and Antonia Lively Breaks the Silence to great acclaim and has received countless fellowships from such places as Yaddo, Jentel, Ledig House, Virginia Center for the Arts, the Santa Fe Arts Institute, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Marguerite & Lamar Smith Fellowship for Writers, Gettysburg College, where he was the Emerging Writer Lecturer (2008 to 2009), and Emory University, where he was the Fiction Fellow (2013 to 2015). 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," 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 The Adirondack Review, among others. He served as the writer-in-residence at Texas A&M in College Station from 2012 to 2013. In response to the pandemic lockdowns in early 2020, he founded The Big Texas Author Talk, a free virtual lecture series that meets over Zoom and showcases Texas writers across the diverse Lone Star state. 

​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. 
— The 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 ​

Although his premise is outré and his plot bustling, Levinson is more of an elegant and careful stylist than the likes of Michael Chabon or Rick Moody and other whip-crack wise-guy writers Tell Me How This Ends Well is perhaps most reminiscent of. — Litro Magazine, UK

For all the narrative pranks and pratfalls, the book is a moving account of the rich complexities of maternal love and the bewildering ecstasies of sibling rivalry.
— Steven Kellman, The San Francisco Chronicle

Grabbers: A selection of first sentences from new books care of The San Francisco Chronicle

"Los Angeles welcomed them with a dark, moody sky that broke open halfway through breakfast."

From Tell Me How This Ends Well