David G. Pace is an essayist and fiction writer located in the Mountain West. His work has been published in, among other periodicals, the literary journals “Quarterly West,” “ellipsis…literature and art,” and “Alligator Juniper.” His byline has also appeared in “The Christian Science Monitor,” “Huffington Post,” “American Theatre Magazine,” in the collection “Moth & Rust,” (Signature Books), in the 2021 collection “Blossom as the Cliffrose” (Torrey House Press), in the fiction anthology “The Path and the Gate” (Signature Books), and as a chapter in a book of biographies.
His collection of short fiction “American Trinity: and Other Stories from the Mormon Corridor” is a prize-winner of the Utah Original Writing Competition and is forthcoming from BCC Press (February 2024). An unpublished manuscript “Cold Desert: An Interstate 80 Picaresque,” is also a prize winner in the Utah Original Writing Competition. The manuscript is currently being shopped.
Pace holds an MA in Communication/Rhetoric and has won seven writing awards, including two for his debut novel Dream House on Golan Drive. Between 2013 and 2020 he was the inaugural literary editor of 15 Bytes Online Arts Magazine found at www.artistsofutah.org