Dooley Allen David

Background

Dooley David was born on the 3rd of November, 1947 in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States.

Education

David Dooley studied at Johns Hopkins University and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1968. He earned a Master's degree from the University of Tennessee in the late 1970s.

Career

David Dooley started his career as a paralegal at Matthews and Branscomb (now Branscomb Law), San Antonio in 1982, he also worked as a paralegal at Sheppard, Mullen, Richter & Hampton, San Diego, California.

David wrote his first volume of poetry “The Volcano Inside” in 1988. In the second volume of poetry “The Revenge by Love” that was published in 1995 Dooley writes about relationships, sex, love, and art in poems focusing on such subjects as the bond between American painter Georgia O'Keeffe and photographer Alfred Stieglitz, the decision of a gay man to forgo a political career in favor of a hedonistic life, and ruminations of a young writer who begins to question his affair with his best friend's girlfriend. He wrote the third volume “The Zen Garden” in 2004.

David Dooley’s poems and essays have been published in numerous journals including Hudson Review, Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Hollins Critic.

Achievements

• Dooley's first volume of poetry “The Volcano Inside” won the inaugural Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize in 1988 and heralded Dooley as one of America's best new poets.

Works

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  • The Volcano Inside 1998
  • The Revenge by Love 1995
  • The Zen Garden 2004