David Allan Evans

David Allan Evans grew up in Sioux City, Iowa. He began college on a football scholarship, and by the time he graduated—majoring in English and minoring in Biology—he was writing poetry and fiction. His interest in literature and natural history began in his teens when his self-educated father recited Shakespeare and spoke often of Darwin and other great observers of animals. The author of nine collections of poems, he was a professor of English and writer in residence at South Dakota State University for many years, as well as a Fulbright Scholar, twice in China, and poet laureate of South Dakota for 14 years.