David B. Seaburn
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David B. Seaburn

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DID YOU KNOW? Give Me Shelter (2022) was short-listed for the Somerset Award in Literary and Contemporary Fiction (2022); Finalist for the Maxy Award in Literary and Humor Fiction (2023); and Short Listed for the American Writing Awards Hawthorne Prize (2023). Give Me Shelter is my ninth novel. The others are: Broken Pieces of God (2021), Gavin Goode (2019), Parrot Talk (2017); More More Time (2015); Chimney Bluffs (2012); Charlie No Face (2011); Pumpkin Hill (2007); and Darkness is as Light (2005). A little about myself. I have been a country preacher, a community mental health therapist, an academic family psychologist working in a medical center and a director of a counseling center in a public school setting. In 2010 I retired. I was an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center for almost twenty years. During my tenure there I taught in a Family Medicine Residency Program, practiced family therapy and was the Director of a Family Therapy Training Program. My primary interest was working with families dealing with illness and developing partnership between mental health professionals and medical professionals. I am also an ordained Presbyterian minister. I graduated from seminary (Boston University) in 1975. I served a church full-time from 1975-1981 before entering the mental health field permanently. Initially I worked in community mental health before going to the University of Rochester Medical Center. My educational background includes two master's degrees and a PhD. I started writing seriously in seminary. But it wasn't until I entered academics that I wrote in a disciplined manner. During my career at U of Rochester Med Ctr, I wrote over 65 papers and book chapters and co-authored two professional books. I also published creative nonfiction and personal essays. It wasn't until 2001 that I started writing fiction. My first novel, Darkness is as Light, came out in 2005. I have written eight additional novels since then. For several years I wrote a blog, "Going Out Not Knowing," for Psychology Today magazine. I was a writing instructor at Writers and Books in Rochester, NY.
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