David McCooey

Dr. David McCooey is an Australian poet, critic and academic.

Life
He was born in London, England, in 1967. He moved to Perth, Western Australia, with his family in 1970. He studied at University of Western Australia (1985-1988), and completed his doctorate at Sydney University (1990-1993).

He is currently Associate Professor in Literary Studies and Professional & Creative Writing at Deakin University in Geelong and regularly writes reviews for Australian Book Review and The Age. He has been the recipient of a number of ARC (Australian Research Council) awards. His critical work, Artful Histories: Modern Australian Autobiography (Cambridge University Press), won a NSW Premier's Literary Award in 1996. His poetry collection, Blister Pack (Salt Publishing), won the 2006 Mary Gilmore Award. He is the Deputy General Editor of the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature (Allen & Unwin, published internationally by Norton as The Literature of Australia), which won the 'Special Award' in the 2010 NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

McCooey is married to the writer and academic Maria Takolander.

Recognition

 * 1996 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Gleebooks Prize for Critical Writing for Artful Histories: Modern Australian Autobiography
 * 2006 Mary Gilmore Award for Blister Pack
 * 2010 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature

Publications

 * "Artful Histories: Modern Australian Autobiography" (1996)
 * "Neither Here Nor There: Suburban Voices In Australian Poetry" in Writing The Everyday Australian Literature and The Limits of Suburbia (1998)
 * "Contemporary Poetry: Across Party Lines" in The Cambridge Companion To Australian Literature (2000)
 * "Orientalism and Nostalgia: Hal Porter and Japan" in Selves Crossing Cultures: Autobiography and Globalisation (2002)
 * "Vestiges: Narrative and Autobiography In Australian Elegy" in La Poesie Australienne: Une Approche Possible: Le Critique A l'Oeuvre (2002)

Professional Associations

 * American Association of Australian Literary Studies
 * Antipodes: The North American Journal of Australian Literature Life Writing
 * Association for the Study of Australian Literature
 * Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize (2003)
 * National Biography Awards (2003)
 * Victorian Premier's Literary Awards (2004)