David Whish-Wilson was born in Newcastle, NSW but raised in Singapore, Victoria and Western Australia. He left Australia in 1984 to live in Europe, Africa and Asia, where he worked as a barman, actor, streetseller, labourer, exterminator, factory worker, gardener, clerk, travel agent and teacher.
During this time he began to publish short stories in Australia (anthologised in Pascoe Publishing’s Best Fifty Stories Collection) and had a longer piece short-listed for the Vogel/Australian Literary Award.
His first novel ‘The Summons’ was published in 2006 (Vintage – Random House.) His second novel ‘Line of Sight’ was published by Penguin in September 2010.
David has taught in the prison system in both WA and Fiji, where he started the country’s first prisoner writing program, which now operates in all Fijian prisons.
He currently lives in Fremantle, Western Australia, where he teaches creative writing at Curtin University.
