David Wright is the author of Fire on the Beach, Away Running, Remedies in Equity, and Remedies Under the Trade Practice Act. He is also the screenwriter for the documentary Rescue Men. His work has earned numerous awards from the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, the Texas Institute of Letters, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. His writing has appeared in The Village Voice, The Kenyon Review, Newsday, Callaloo, The Massachusetts Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and elsewhere. He currently teaches at the University of Illinois.