David Poyer

Millions of copies of David Poyer's nearly fifty books are in print. His work has been translated into Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Hungarian, and Serbo-Croatian, and rights have been sold for films and audio. Poyer holds a master's degree from George Washington University and has taught or lectured at Annapolis, Flagler College, University of Pittsburgh, Old Dominion University, Armed Forces Staff College, University of North Florida, The New College, The Jimmy Carter Library, Wilkes University, and other institutions. He's been a writer in residence at Flagler and Annapolis, and a guest on PBS's "Writer to Writer" series and on Voice of America. His fiction has been required reading in the U.S. Naval Academy's "Literature of the Sea" course, along with that of Joseph Conrad and Herman Melville. He was a founding editor of the New Virginia Review and serves on the board of the Northern Appalachian Review. After a sixteen-year university teaching career, he current serves as core faculty at the Ossabaw Island Writers Retreat in Georgia.