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David Paradis grew up in Scituate, Massachusetts, and went to Boston College and The University of Iowa, where he was in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is the founder of the literary journal Pequod, which he published and edited for ten years. Work of his has been published in Triquarterly and The Massachusetts Review.
He is an amateur jazz drummer and frequently gets together with musician-friends to jam. He lives in New York City and Truro, Massachusetts, with his wife Daisy.