David Stromberg is a writer, translator, and literary scholar.
His early publications include four collections of single-panel cartoons, the last of which was Baddies, with a Foreword by Aimee Bender (Melville House). His fiction has appeared in Ambit, The Account, and The Woven Tale Press, and his nonfiction in The American Scholar, The Smart Set, Speculative Nonfiction, and Literary Matters, among others.
Stromberg's nonfiction work includes a series of personal essays in Public Seminar about growing up on the social margins of Los Angeles. He has written about the cultural implications of the coronavirus epidemic, the emotional layers of American revolt, and reflections on literature's role in daily life. Among his recent work is a speculative nonfiction essay, "A Short Inquiry into the End of the World" (The Massachusetts Review), as well as two follow-ups, "The Eternal Hope of the Wandering Jew" (The Hedgehog Review) and "To Kill an Intellectual" (The Fortnightly Review).
Stromberg's scholarly research has appeared in Prooftexts, Journal of Narrative Theory, Studies in American Jewish Literature, Soundings, and The American Journal of Psychoanalysis. His first book-length study, Narrative Faith: Dostoevsky, Camus, and Singer (University of Delaware Press), focused on narrative technique and moral vision. His second, Idiot Love and the Elements of Intimacy (Palgrave Macmillan), explored the intersection of literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis.
Stromberg has published translations from the Russian, Hebrew, and Yiddish, and edited In the Land of Happy Tears: Yiddish Tales for Modern Times (Delacorte), a collection of children's stories from the early 20th century. He is editor of the Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Trust, and his translations of Singer's work have appeared in The New Yorker, Tablet, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Conjunctions. He has edited a collection of Singer's essays, Old Truths and New Clichés (Princeton University Press), as well as a retranslation of Singer's canonical story, Simple Gimpl: The Definitive Bilingual Edition (Restless Books). His has also translated and edited a collection of Singer's cultural criticism, Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt (White Goat Press).
Born in Israel to ex-Soviet parents, Stromberg immigrated as a child to the United States, and returned to Israel twenty years later. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and three little ones.
