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About David

What I Offer: As a Grub Street manuscript consultant since 2019, I have worked with dozens of emerging and established writers to help get their books, stories, and essays ready for publication. I read widely across genres, but I'm especially interested in Young Adult, mystery, literary fiction, and non-fiction. As a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Army, I also offer invaluable expertise in books related to military matters. More About Me: David Abrams is the author of Brave Deeds and Fobbit. Publishers Weekly called Fobbit “an instant classic” and named it a Top 10 Pick for Literary Fiction in Fall 2012. It was also a New York Times Notable Book of 2012, an Indie Next pick, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, a Montana Honor Book, and a finalist for the L.A. Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Abrams’ short stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and appeared in the anthologies Watchlist, Fire and Forget and Montana Noir. Other stories and essays have appeared in Esquire, Glimmer Train Stories, Narrative, Salon, F(r)iction, High Desert Journal, Salamander, Connecticut Review, The Greensboro Review, Consequence, and many other publications. Abrams earned a BA in English from the University of Oregon and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. He lives in Helena, Montana with his wife and their three cats.