David Allen Case

David Allen Case was a poet born in Birmingham, Alabama, who earned degrees from the University of Alabama and a Ph.D. in English from UCLA. He taught at several Southern California and Florida colleges from the mid-1980s through 2011. He died unexpectedly at age 49 in Gainesville, Florida. His first book, The Tarnation of Faust, was published posthumously by Gunpowder Press in 2014, and his final collection, Before Traveling to Alabama, followed in 2023.