David James Poissant

David James Poissant is the author of The Heaven of Animals, longlisted for the PEN / Robert Bingham Prize, winner of the GLCA New Writers Award and a Florida Book Award, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Poissant’s stories and essays have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, One Story, Playboy, Ploughshares, and elsewhere.

Nonfiction – Issue 19

•The Story of a Year

Amid the chaos of new homeownership, HOA threats, air-conditioner repairs, and the deaths of pet goldfish, a Florida father struggles to discuss mortality with his preschool-aged daughters.