
David Brooks
The author, too, of numerous novels, works of short fiction, essays and memoir, David Brooks has published six full collections of poetry, the latest, The Peanut Vendor, comprising the ‘new’ section of The Other Side of Daylight: New and Selected Poems. Currently an honorary Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, where from 200-2012 he ran the graduate writing program, he has taught Australian Literature at several Australian universities, and for nearly twenty years was co-editor of Southerly. An advocate for animals and animal rights, he lives in the Blue Mountains with rescued sheep.