David McCooey

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Dr. David McCooey, poet, critic and academic, was born in London 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 a senior lecturer in Literary Studies 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 married to writer Maria Takolander.

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

Persondata
NAME	McCooey, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Contemporary Australian poet
DATE OF BIRTH	1967
PLACE OF BIRTH	London, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH