David Leser is one of the most highly regarded feature writers in Australia. He was born in Montreal, Canada in 1956 and grew up in Sydney before moving in 2000 to Byron Bay, NSW, with his wife and two daughters.

In his 32 year-career as a journalist David has been a Middle East & Washington D.C correspondent, as well as feature writer in Australia for the Murdoch, Packer & Fairfax organisations. He has covered murder trials, demonstrations, uprisings, war zones and peace conferences in America, the Middle East, Europe and the Asia Pacific region.

More recently he has become widely known for his intimate, psychological portraits of some of the more remarkable personalities of our times. David is a a multiple award-winning journalist who has worked as a staff feature writer for the Daily Telegraph, the Australian, HQ magazine, the Bulletin, the Sydney Morning Herald and Good Weekend.

Between 2000 and 2011 he has been Writer-at-Large for the Australian Women’s Weekly, the country’s most widely-read magazine, as well as Asia-Pacific writer for Italian and German Vanity Fair, and more recently the Daily Beast website in America.

David is the author of four books, with a fifth currently in train.

In addition to his writing he has been a public interviewer at the Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Byron Bay and Auckland Writers Festivals and has been a guest lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney, Queensland University, Griffith University, Queensland University of Technology, Southern Cross University and Newcastle University.

He is also executive producer of an upcoming documentary on the life and musical career of Paul Kelly, Australia's pre-eminent songwriter. To contact David please email davidleser@gmail.com.