David Sornig was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia.
His debut novel Spiel was published by University of Western Australia Publishing in 2009.
He holds a PhD in creative writing from Deakin University and lectures in creative writing at Flinders University in Adelaide.
David is a fiction editor for Wet Ink Magazine, literary reviewer for The Melbourne Review and a regular contributor of fiction and essays to Griffith Review. His published work includes short fiction, memoir, essays, reviews and literary criticism.
His most recent work of short fiction ‘Your Voice is Lead’ was published in Harvard Review 41, Fall/Winter 2011.
In 2011 David was awarded an Australia Council for the Arts New Work Grant, and an Arts SA Project Grant to continue work on a new novel.
