Draft:David M. McGrath

= David M. McGrath = David M. McGrath (born July 19, 1949) is an American columnist, essayist and novelist. His writings draw from his life experiences on the south side of Chicago and as a teacher and fisherman in Wisconsin and Florida. He grew up in Evergreen Park, Illinois and now lives in Port Charlotte, Florida with his wife, Marianne McGrath (born August 30, 1948). While working as an English teacher at Chicago Vocational High School on the southeast side of Chicago, he started writing and published his work in magazines and newspapers, including AIM, the Daily Southtown, and American Educator. In 1990, he began his career at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, IL, and published his first novel, Seige At Ojibwa (2001) and a short story collection, The Territory (2009).

McGrath's columns appear in The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Sun Times , The Daily Herald , The Naperville Sun, the Twin Cities Pioneer Press , and The Sarasota Herald-Tribune , and his essays and short stories have appeared in Artful Dodge , Chicago Reader , The Paumanock Review , Midwest Outdoors , Sport Literate , Notre Dame Magazine , and Florida Sportsman , including "The Swellest Thing" in Fourth Genre (2003).

He is the author of two essay collections: Southsiders (2020) and Far Enough Away (2023).