David Milofsky is an American writer of fiction and non-fiction. He is the author of six novels: Playing From Memory, Eternal People, Color of Law, A Friend of Kissinger, Managed Care, and A Milwaukee Inheritance (published in 2019). He has also published a collection of short stories called Where I'm Living Now. In addition to writing fiction, he works regularly as a journalist.
His short stories, articles, and reviews have appeared widely in a variety of national periodicals, including the Milwaukee Journal, the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, and The New York Times Magazine. He founded the Center for Literary Publishing and was the founding editor of the Colorado Prize in Poetry. Since 2002 he has written the "Bookbeat" column for The Denver Post. In 1992 he was one of the founders of the Evil Companions Literary Award, which recognizes the contributions of writers who either live in the West or write about the region.
Born in New York City in 1946, Milofsky grew up and was educated in public schools in Wisconsin. He holds degrees in English from the University of Wisconsin and the M.F.A. Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has also taught at Middlebury College, Iowa State University, and the University of Wisconsin. Milofsky has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He has also received a Prairie Schooner Short Fiction Award and the Colorado Book Award.
At MacDowell in 2000, David worked on a novel. He began writing his third novel, Color of Law, at MacDowell in 1995.
