David Lawrence Morse is a fiction writer, playwright, and director of the Writing Program at Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs.  His first novel, The Occident, concerning a young architect on the run for his life from a system convinced he is dead, is forthcoming from Regal House. His first collection of stories, The Book of Disbelieving, won the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and was published by Sarabande Books.  His short fiction has also garnered the O. Henry Prize and the Calvino Prize and has appeared in numerous literary magazines.  Beethoven in Bed, his play about the composer’s final years, was created originally with violinist Edward Dusinberre and is now being developed with director Mark Wing-Davey and the Brentano String Quartet. For more information on Morse and his work, refer to his Regal House author page.