Dave Malone

Dave Malone was born in Rolla, Missouri. In the mid-1970s when he was six, his family moved to rural Kansas to a small home that overlooked Tuttle Creek Lake. Discovering fossils along an ancient creekbed inspired an interest in history. Listening to Vincent Price’s CBS Radio Mystery Theater on his transistor inspired an interest in storytelling and the macabre. He also ate up books like the Dr. Doolittle series and Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time. In third grade, a teacher introduced haiku to a handful of eager students, and Dave was taken with this combination of math and writing. And his lifelong interest in poetry began. Encouraged by high school and college teachers to pursue a life of letters, Dave did just that by beginning his studies in Abilene, Texas, then going on to earn a bachelor’s degree from Ottawa University in 1991 and a master’s degree from Indiana State in 1994. For many years, he held a number of fun jobs, traveled, and lived in the Southwest and Midwest. In 2009, he came back to the Ozarks and loves writing about this place that means so much to him. Dave is the author of 11 works of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama. His first book is Poems to Love and the Body (Bliss Station Publishing, 1999) and his most recent book is You Know the Ones (Golden Antelope Press, 2017). Dave’s early writing was commended for its daring, sometimes ribald, nature. His later work has been praised for its refinement, heart, and strong sense of place.