David Hardin is the Michigan Notable Book award winning author of the 2026 memoir, Water Finds A Way. His previous memoir, Standpipe, Delivering Water In Flint, was a 2022 Michigan Notable Book. "Land Ho," an excerpt from his latest, was nominated for a 2026 Pushcart Prize. His work has appeared in the Dunes Review, the Michigan Quarterly Review online, the Carolina Quarterly, the Madison Review, the Prague Review, 3 Quarks Daily, ARDOR, and the 2014 Bear River Review.