David Aloi is a writer living in Los Angeles. He received his MFA in fiction from California College of the Arts and has worked at Grindr, Medium, ScholarMatch, and McSweeney’s. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Joyland, The Rumpus, Chicago Review, Flaunt, Water~Stone Review, CutBank, Foglifter, and The Offing.

He has received support and fellowships from MacDowell, Lambda Literary Foundation, Willapa Bay AiR, The Studios of Key West, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Tin House Summer Workshop, and Sewanee Writers’ Conference. David recently completed his debut short story collection, Loverboy, and is currently working on a novel.