David P Reiter

Who is David P Reiter?

David Philip Reiter is an award-winning poet and writer of fiction and multimedia based in Brisbane, Australia. His fourth poetry book, Hemingway in Spain and Selected Poems, was shortlisted for the 1998 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and was made into a film in 2006. His previous books include The Cave After Saltwater Tide for which he won the Queensland Premier’s Poetry Award. His book of short fiction, Triangles, was shortlisted for the 2000 Steele Rudd Award. IP released his first novel Liars and Lovers in 2003, and The Greenhouse Effect, a novel for junior readers, was published by Lothian Books in 2004. In 2008. Real Guns, a children’s picture book illustrated by Irish artist Patrick J Murphy, and a multimedia CD anthology, Rainshadows, representing 30 authors, were released in 2007, and Global Cooling, a sequel to The Greenhouse Effect, has just been released. His satire Primary Instinct is about life in a typical primary school. David has been writer-in-residence at a number of places, most recently at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada where he composed My Planets Reunion Memoir, which was short-listed for the Western Australian Premier's Award in 2013, Katharine Prichard Centre in Perth, where he composed Nullarbor Song Cycle, which was short-listed for the 2012 WA Premier's Award and Tiger Tames the Min Min, the third book in the Project Earth-mend Series, Bundanon, and in Auckland, New Zealand, at the Michael King Writers’ Centre during February–March 2008. His most recent title, the children's picture book Bringing Down the Wall, illustrated by Sona Babajanyan, was selected for the ACT Chief Minister's Reading Challenge in 2013. His work has been translated into several languages including French, German, Spanish and Portuguese.