Dr. David McCooey, poet, critic and academic, was born in London

London

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 in 1967. He moved to Perth

Perth, Western Australia

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, Western Australia

Western Australia

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, with his family in 1970. He studied at University of Western Australia

University of Western Australia

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 (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

Deakin University

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 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

Maria Takolander

Maria Takolander, born in Melbourne in 1973, is an Australian poet and literary critic. She is a lecturer at Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, in the areas of Literary Studies and Professional and Creative Writing. She has published many poems in literary journals, and her work has frequently...

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Awards and Nominiations

• 1996 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
  New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
  The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards were established in 1979 by the New South Wales Premier Neville Wran. Commenting on its purpose, Wran said: "We want the arts to take, and be seen to take, their proper place in our social priorities...
  
  , 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
  New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
  The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards were established in 1979 by the New South Wales Premier Neville Wran. Commenting on its purpose, Wran said: "We want the arts to take, and be seen to take, their proper place in our social priorities...
  
   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

Association for the Study of Australian Literature

The Association for the Study of Australian Literature is an Australian organisation which promotes the creation and study of Australian literature and literary culture especially through the interaction of Australian writers with teachers and students...

Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize (2003)

National Biography Awards (2003)

Victorian Premier's Literary Awards (2004)

External links

• Judges' Report, 2006 Mary Gilmore Award Retrieved (27 August 2007)
• Research Output for David McCooey 1999 Deakin University Research Report (Retrieved 27 August 2007)