David L. Workman

David L. Workman is an award-winning American writer and editor with family roots in the U.K., the Netherlands, Alsace, and Germany, among other places. He was a journalist at several newspapers, then entered public service as communications director for several state agencies in Washington State. He was executive editor of state-published books and websites on natural resources, environment, and social and health services. In 2019, he was an author of "We Are Puget Sound: Discovering & Recovering the Salish Sea," published by Mountaineers Books / Braided River in partnership with the Washington Environmental Council / Washington Conservation Action. The book won the Gold Medal in in the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards ("(IPPY Awards"), for Best Regional Non-Fiction in the West-Pacific. It also was a winner in the national Nautilus Book Awards ("Better Books for a Better World"), receiving the Silver Medal for Ecology and Environment. In 2015, he released “Letter from Alabama: The Inspiring True Story of Strangers Who Saved a Child and Changed a Family Forever.” In 2016, he released "An Author Tells All: Surprises and Revelations from Publishing My Story."