David stromberg biography

David Stromberg is a writer, translator, and literary scholar. 

His early publications include four collections of single-panel cartoons, the last of which was Baddies, with a Foreword by Aimee Bender (Melville House).

His fiction has appeared in Ambit,  The Account, and The Woven Tale Press, and his nonfiction in The American Scholar, The Smart Set, Speculative Nonfiction, and Literary Matters, among others.

Stromberg's nonfiction work includes a series of personal essays in Public Seminar about growing up on the social margins of Los Angeles.

He has written about the cultural implications of the coronavirus epidemic, the emotional layers of American revolt, and reflections on literature's role in daily life. Among his recent work is a speculative nonfiction essay, "A Short Inquiry into the End of the World" (The Massachusetts Review), as well as two follow-ups, "The Eternal Hope of the Wanderi