David McCooey (born 1967 in London), poet, critic, musician, and academic.
He is Personal Chair in Literary Studies and Professional & Creative Writing at Deakin University in Geelong.
[2] McCooey is Personal Chair in Literary Studies and Professional & Creative Writing at Deakin University in Geelong and regularly writes reviews for Australian Book Review and The Age.
In her review of Outside in The Australian, Fiona Wright commented on the collection's "remarkable power to draw the reader in" and its "shifting and subtle exploration of creativity".
[7] The Book of Falling, McCooey's fourth full-length collection of poetry, was published in 2023 by Upswell.