David Lerner Schwartz is a writer with work in Ecotone, Michigan Quarterly Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Five Points, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere.

Schwartz received the New Letters Robert Day Award for Fiction and was a finalist for The Florida Review Leiby Chapbook Award, The Masters Review Chapbook Open, and the Nimrod Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction. His writing has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Goodall Visiting Fellows Program, The Niehoff Center for Film, Media Studies, and St. Albans School, where he served as the writer in residence.

Schwartz holds a PhD from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Central Florida.