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David Colosi was born in Fairport, NY. After starting his education in Fisheries and Wildlife, looking through microscopes in chemistry and zoology, he switched to the macro lenses of Art and Literature and received a BA from SUNY Plattsburgh (1989) and an MFA from CalArts (1991). After finishing graduate school in 1992 he left Los Angeles for Valdez Alaska for three months then to Tokyo tor 18 months and finally settled in Brooklyn where he has continued to experiment with Three-Dimensional Literature since 1994. He received another MA from NYU in Art and Literary Theory (2006). He became a dual national with Italy in 2023. His work has been featured in France at Musee des Morlaix and FRAC Bretagne; in NYC at Pioneer Works, Open Source, Cueto Project and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; in Brussels at Galerie Catherine Bastide; in Switzerland in Art Statements at Art Basel; in Los Angeles at Council St., and Highways Performance Space Gallery; and Tokyo at the Proto Theater. He has been an artist-in-residence in New York at Pioneer Works, BRIC Arts Media and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; in Florida at the Fountainhead Residency and Atlantic Center for the Arts; and in France at Le Centre Du Monde in Belle-Ile-en-mer. His books include Miss Pumpernickel Bread, Towards a Three-Dimensional Literature Part 1, Laughing Blood,Imaginary Numbers and Other Calculated Fictions, The Life and Thoughts of a Retired Apostrophe, and Letters to Poly. His short fiction has appeared in Sequestrum, The Wisconsin Review, The Offbeat (Short Fiction Contest finalist 2018), Permafrost, Intercourse, and Konch. His poetry is included in the anthologies, The Power of the Feminine I and From Totems to Hip Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002; the journals Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora (Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial Poetry Prize finalist 2017) and The Los Angeles Times. In 2009 he received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. From 2015-2024 he hosted a podcast, The Napping Wizard Sessions.
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