David Ross Huddle (July 11, 1942 – October 7, 2025) was an American writer and professor. His poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire,Esquire > February 20, 2007 > A Conversation by David Huddle Harper's Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Story, The Autumn House Anthology of Poetry, and The Best American Short Stories. His work has also been included in anthologies of writing about the Vietnam War. He was the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts fellowshipsNational Endowment for the Arts > Forty Years of Supporting American Writers > Literature Fellows and taught creative fiction, poetry, and autobiography at the University of Vermont and at the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. Huddle was born in Ivanhoe, Wythe County, Virginia, and he was sometimes considered an Appalachian writer. He served as an enlisted man in the U.S. Army from 1964 to 1967, in Germany as a paratrooper and then in Vietnam as a military intelligence specialist. Internet Archive > Vietnam Anthology: American War > David Huddle Bio
Huddle died on October 7, 2025, at the age of 83.
Bibliography Poetry collections Paper Boy (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979) Stopping by Home (Peregrine Smith Books, 1988) The Nature of Yearning: Poems (Peregrine Smith Books, 1992) Summer Lake: New and Selected Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 1999) Grayscale: Poems''' (Louisiana State University Press, 2004) Glory River: Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 2008) Roanoke Pastorale, A Villanelle in Simplicity (Palindrome Press, 2011) Blacksnake at the Family Reunion (Louisiana State University Press, 2012) Dream Sender (Louisiana State University Press, 2015)https://lsupress.org/author/david-huddle/ My Surly Heart (Louisiana State University Press, 2019)
Fiction Dream with No Stump Roots in It: Stories (University of Missouri Press, 1975) Only the Little Bone: Stories (David R. Godine, 1986) The High Spirits: Stories of Men and Women (David R. Godine, 1989) Intimates: A Book of Stories (David R. Godine, 1993) A David Huddle Reader: Selected Prose and Poetry (University Press of New England, 1994) Tenorman: A Novella (Chronicle Books, 1995) The Story of a Million Years (Houghton Mifflin, 1999) Not: A Trio: Two Stories and a Novella (University of Notre Dame Press, 2000) La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl (Houghton Mifflin, 2002) Nothing Can Make Me Do This (Tupelo Press, 2012) The Faulkes Chronicle (Tupelo Press, 2014) My Immaculate Assassin (Tupelo Press, 2016)https://tupelopress.org/search?q=Huddle Hazel (Tupelo Press, 2019)
Essay collections The Writing Habit: Essays (University of Vermont/University Press of New England, 1994)
Anthologies edited About These Stories: Fiction for Fiction Writers and Readers'' (Edited with Ghita Orth, Allen Shepherd; McGraw Hill, 1995)
References
External links Audio Reading: The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor > Poems by David Huddle Directory Listing: Poets & Writers > Directory of Writers > David Huddle Short Story: A River and Sound Review > Issue 1 > A Thousand Wives by David Huddle Interview: Emerging Writers Forum > 3/20/2002 Interview with David Huddle by Dan Wickett Audio Reading of Poem: The Cortland Review > Issue 10, February 2000 > April Saturday, 1960 by David Huddle