Meet David Philip Mullins, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note working on his novel, The Houndsman.
The Houndsman follows big-game hunter Jesse Tindol on her quest to locate a missing child in the backwoods of northern Nevada.
“The Houndsman will explore issues of gender and sexuality, grief and longing, violence and parental love, and secularism and religious fanaticism, expanding on the still-emerging genre of the literary rural noir.”
An exciting update from David: “In addition to the grant, The Houndsman received First Place in the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards at The University of Arizona, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, a New Investigator/New Direction Award from the Dr. George F. Haddix President’s Faculty Research Fund at Creighton University, anda Summer Faculty Research Fellowship from the Center for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship at Creighton University.”
David Philip Mullins is the author of Greetings from Below, a story collection, which won the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and the International Walter Scott Prize for Short Stories, and The Brightest Place in the World, a novel, which won the Nebraska Book Award. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.