David Barr Kirtley (born 1977) is an American short story writer. His short fiction appears in magazines such as Realms of Fantasy and Weird Tales, in online magazines such as Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, and on podcasts such as Escape Pod and Pseudopod. In 2003, he was selected for the anthology New Voices in Science Fiction. In 2008, his story "Save Me Plz" was chosen for the anthology Fantasy: The Best of the Year. He was pr...
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David Barr Kirtley (born 1977) is an American short story writer. His short fiction appears in magazines such as Realms of Fantasy and Weird Tales, in online magazines such as Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, and on podcasts such as Escape Pod and Pseudopod. In 2003, he was selected for the anthology New Voices in Science Fiction. In 2008, his story "Save Me Plz" was chosen for the anthology Fantasy: The Best of the Year. He was profiled in the 2008 Novel & Short Story Writer's Market as part of "Speculative Fiction: The Next Generation."
He grew up in Katonah, New York. From 1996-2000, he attended Colby College in Waterville, Maine, where he majored in Government, with a minor in Creative Writing. In 1997, he won the Dell Magazines Award for undergraduate science fiction (previously called the Asimov Award), sponsored by Asimov's magazine. In 1999, he attended the Clarion Workshop at Michigan State University. He is the son of physicist John R. Kirtley.
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