David Aloi received his M.F.A. in fiction from California College of the Arts and has worked at Grindr, Medium, McSweeney’s, and ScholarMatch. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Rumpus, Flaunt, CutBank, INTO, Cuepoint, and Switchback. He was recently awarded a LAMBDA Fellowship for Emerging LGBTQ Voices as well as selected as a Tin House Summer Workshop Scholar.
At MacDowell he completed two short stories for his collection, Lifers. In the first, “Most Precious Blood,” Tal struggles to be a typical teenager while processing a unique health diagnosis. In the second, “The Immortal,” an aging Edward escapes the mundane on a gay cruise to Mexico. David lives and writes in Los Angeles.