David Milofsky
David Milofsky, born in 1946 in New York City, is an American writer of fiction and non-fiction. He has written six novels and a collection of short stories, including A Milwaukee Inheritance, Managed Care, A Friend of Kissinger, Playing from Memory, Eternal People, and Color of Law. He also works as a journalist, with stories and articles appearing in the Milwaukee Journal, Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, and The New York Times Magazine. Milofsky has served as a script editor for NPR’s Earplay and as editor of the Denver Quarterly and Colorado Review. He founded the Center for Literary Publishing and was the first editor of the Colorado Prize in Poetry. Since 2002 he has written the Bookbeat column for The Denver Post. In 1992 he helped start the Evil Companions Literary Award for writers who live in or write about the West.
Milofsky grew up in Wisconsin and earned English degrees from the University of Wisconsin, followed by an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has taught writing and literature at the University of Denver and Colorado State University, where he is a professor of English, as well as at Middlebury College, Iowa State University, and the University of Wisconsin. He has also served on the board of the Associated Writing Programs. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and he has won the Prairie Schooner short fiction award and the Colorado Book Award for Color of Law.
Milofsky lives in Denver with his wife and their three children. His most recent work is Scare Tactics, a historical novel about the McCarthy era, published in October 2025 by Serving House Books.
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