David Shumate

David Shumate is an American poet.

Life Shumate is the author of three books of prose poems published by the University of Pittsburgh Press: Kimonos in the Closet (2013), The Floating Bridge (2008) and High Water Mark (2004), winner of the 2003 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize.

Shumate's poetry has been anthologized in Good Poems for Hard Times, The Best American Poetry, and The Writer’s Almanac. He was awarded an NEA Fellowship in poetry in 2009, He lives in Zionsville, Indiana.

Awards 2003 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize 2005 Best Books of Indiana competition 2007 Creative Renewal Fellowship-Arts Council of Indianapolis 2009 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship

Works "Plum", AGNI "In the Next America", Double Room "Afternoon Nap", Arabesques Review

Kimonos in the Closet, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013

Anthologies