David F. Hamilton

I was born in Brooklyn, NY, in the shadow of my father's beloved Ebbets Field. I grew up listening to stories of Jackie and Pee Wee, Campy and Carl, Gil and the Duke, and Sandy Amoros' miraculous catch that saved the 1955 World Series. Baseball, and the Dodgers, are in my blood.

Today I live in Los Angeles, reunited with my childhood heroes, and suffering through twenty years without a trip to the World Series. I fill my son's head with stories of the legendary infield of Garvey, Lopes, Russell and Cey, and Fernandomania, and Orel Hershiser's 59 consecutive scoreless innings, and Kirk Gibson's miraculous home run in the 1988 World Series. Someday I hope to tell my grandchildren about Russell and Andre, and Matt and Nomar, and Broxton and Billingsley, and the great championship teams to come.

Since moving to Los Angeles I have earned my living as an Operations Manager for several large companies, and currently as Project Manager of a large distribution center for the federal government. I also returned to school, and received my B.A. in English/Creative writing in 2004. When not at work, and not at Dodger stadium, I collect baseball cards, vinyl LP record albums (especially the 1960s), and I write.

Stories of mine have appeared in many literary and commercial magazines, including Crosscurrents, Buffalo Spree, Corvette Fever, Read Me, Crazyquilt Literary Quarterly, Ellipsis, 2AM, Visions, Pandora and The Ecphorizor. One of my stories, "Just Another Mask in the Crowd," was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for short fiction. In addition, I have been a winner or finalist in several national writing competitions, including the Writers of the Future, Science Fiction Writers of Earth, and the National Fantasy Fan Fedration short story contests.

I have also had some success as a screenwriter, and have been a member of the Writers Guild of America since 1990. I have written an episode of the TV series In the Heat of the Night, and have made a story sale to Stephen J. Cannell Productions for the TV series Street Justice. My screenplay "Cardboard Heroes" was a finalist in the International Family Film Festival screeplay competition, and another of my screenplays, "Only the Shallow Know Themselves," was a finalist in the Writer's Digest writing competition, script division.