David Carlin

David Carlin is an essayist, memoirist, playwright, theatre director and ceramicist. Of Scottish and English background, he lives in Bulleke-Bek/Brunswick on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung country in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.

He has published eight books, including sole and collaboratively authored works and edited anthologies. His essays have been published in journals and magazines including Overland, Meanjin, Griffith REVIEW, Hunger Mountain, Speak, Essay Daily, Westerly, Sydney Review of Books, and Speculative Nonfiction. He has won awards including the Patricia Hackett Prize, four Gold and Silver Awards from the New York Radio Festival, and Runner-Up in the Hunger Mountain Creative NonfictionPrize.

David is Emeritus Professor at RMIT University, where he co-founded the non/fictionLab and WrICE.  He is also Co-President of the NonfictioNOW Conference, and a founding Contributing Editor of the journal, Speculative Nonfiction. He has won two Australian Research Council grants, for the Circus Oz Living Archive and WrICE.