David Prater is a writer, editor, teacher and student rolled into one. He was born in Dubbo, Australia in the Year of the Rat.
Since 2000 he has been the Managing Editor of Cordite Poetry Review, an online poetry journal funded by the Australia Council for the Arts. In 2006 he briefly joined Going Down Swinging, a bi-annual literary magazine funded by the Australia Council for the Arts and Arts Victoria, as Associate Editor.
In 2004 he completed a Master of Arts at the University of Melbourne, his thesis being an examination of that curious confection, Marzipan. In 2005 he was an Asialink resident in Seoul, Republic of Korea, where he pursued his obsession with PC Bangs.
He is currently enrolled as a PhD student at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. His debut poetry collection, We Will Disappear, was released in 2007 by soi3/ papertiger media.