Dr. David B Axelrod is an author and sponsor of international writers’ programs covering dozens of countries and nearly forty languages. He has performed and taught as an author and educator lecturing in England, France, Sicily, Italy, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Croatia, Hong Kong and throughout the People's Republic of China. 

As a performer, the New York Times, has deemed him to be "A treat!" He has appeared at the United Nations, for the American Library Association, as a feature on National Public Radio, as America's official representative at the International Struga Festivals, as featured reader at the New York State Fine Arts Center in Albany, as poet-in-residence for Virginia, and at literally hundreds more venues including radio and television appearances. 

Himself a student of ten languages, author of sixteen books and literally hundreds of articles, his work has been translated and published in numerous languages including Albanian and Bulgarian, Chinese and Japanese, Hebrew and Yiddish, Italian and Sicilian, Greek and Macedonian, Russian, Albanian and Romanian, French and Creole, Spanish and Portuguese, German and Dutch among others!

He has entered record books as the only American to receive two back-to-back Fulbright Awards in separate areas, as poet-in-residence in Yugoslavia and then professor of American Literature in Macedonia. With his third Fulbright, he became the first poet to be formally acknowledged as American Poet in Residence in the People’s Republic of China. There he also assisted in establishing an American Center, taught media and literature and lectured in six provinces.

Dr. Axelrod holds his Ph.D. from Union Institute in Academic Program Design and Administration, granted for his establishing the not-for-profit writers services, Writers Unlimited Agency, Inc., as well as Writers Ink Press. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from the University of Iowa Writers Workshops; a Master of Arts degree in poetry from The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars; and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Massachusetts.

Dr. Axelrod has received grants for literally hundreds of thousands of dollars of writing, arts and service projects including funding from the National Endowment for the Arts; New York State Council for the Arts; County of Suffolk; State of Virginia; Towns of Brookhaven, Westhampton and Riverhead; America the Beautiful Foundation; International Paper Company; Bankers Trust and Marine Midland and Chemical Bank; State University of New York Research Division and Board of Education Cooperative Services among many others.

As founder and director of Writers Unlimited Agency, Inc., a not-for-profit (501-C-3) organization he continues to provide information on the writing arts. In that capacity he also publishes arts books under the imprint of Writers Ink Press. More recently he founded 3WS, World-Wide Writers Services, a network for authors and editors aiding international publication and exchange. Dr. Axelrod’s own Curriculum Vita enumerates nearly twenty pages of education, artistic and administrative accomplishments.

What Others Say

"David B. Axelrod is a treat."
    —The New York Times              

"One of the finest and most original American poets now writing."
    —X. J. Kennedy

"Whether Axelrod is reliving a moment of pleasure, or a time of bitterness and pain, the truth of his poetry is like life itself compelling."
    —Louis Simpson

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