 | Thisbiography of a living personneeds additionalcitations forverification. Please help by addingreliable sources.Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced orpoorly sourcedmust be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentiallylibelous. Find sources: "David Reiter" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(December 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
David Reiter | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1947 (age 77–78) |
| Occupation | Writer; poet |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | |
| Spouses |
|
David Philip Reiter (born 1947) is a poet and writer of fiction andmultimedia based inBrisbane, Australia.
Born inCleveland,Ohio, in theUSA in 1947, he wasadopted shortly after birth by Jewish parents Alexander and Freda Reiter, and brought up in a working-class neighbourhood. His adoptive father, a self-employedtruck driver, died of a heart attack in 1958, leaving his mother to raise Reiter as anonly child. Aged 19, Reiter moved toOregon, where he completed his BA in the Independent Studies Program at theUniversity of Oregon. He married Carol Geneva Rechard in 1969 and moved toAlberta, Canada, where both attended theUniversity of Alberta. Reiter completed his master's degree in American Literature, writing his thesis onWilliam Faulkner'sThe Wild Palms owing to his interest in interdisciplinary subjects. He began publishing stories in prestigious journals likeThe Fiddlehead (University of New Brunswick) and poems in journals likeCanadian Literature. His first paid employment was as a technical editor with the Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment inCold Lake, followed by an appointment as a scientific editor at the Northern Forest Research Centre inEdmonton, Alberta. His interest in environmental matters led him to be a publishing consultant for several Government departments such asEnvironment Canada.[citation needed]
In 1975, he accepted a position as a lecturer atCariboo College, a two-year university level institution in the interior ofBritish Columbia, where he taught literature and writing for ten years. During this time, he was President of the College's Faculty Association, and active in the Provincial organisation representing college teaching staff. He also acted as Chief Negotiator for the faculty during several contract rounds. In 1980 he tookleave of absence to attend theUniversity of Denver, where he completed his PhD in Creative Writing, with a collection of stories as hisdissertation, and American Literature as his literary field of speciality. Shortly after he returned to Cariboo College, he and his wife were divorced. He was invited to run as a candidate for Provincial parliament for theNew Democratic Party in 1982 in anelection campaign narrowly lost to the incumbentSocial Credit Party. Soon after, he and his partner Helen Gilbert moved toVancouver, where he taught for a year at theBritish Columbia Institute of Technology then briefly at theUniversity of British Columbia before migrating to Australia in November 1986.
His first job in Australia was as a lecturer in professional writing at the thenCanberra College of Advanced Education where he set up one of the country's first electronic editing programs and was founding editor of theliterary magazineRedoubt. During that time he was invited to join the Five Islands Press cooperative, which subsequently published his first volume of poetry,The Snow in Us, which focuses on life among theInuit, in 1989. His second volume,Changing House, was a transitional work, mostly set in Canada, continuing his interest in historical research andmythology. It was published in 1991 by Jacaranda Press, a division of Jacaranda-Wiley.
He married Cherie Lorraine Dawson in 1992 shortly after resigning his position at the University of Canberra and becoming publishing manager for the Board of Senior Secondary School Studies in Brisbane. In 1993 he became publishing manager for theCriminal Justice Commission where he worked for three years. He founded IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd) in 1994 in his consultancy work for a number of government departments. Departing from the Criminal Justice Commission in 1996, he changed the primary focus of IP to a literarypublishing company, publishingHemingway in Spain and Selected Poems as its first title afterPenguin Books, which had originally offered to publish it, discontinued their poetry publishing program. Several ex-Penguin poets came to IP to be published.Hemingway in Spain was subsequently shortlisted for the John Bray Award at the Adelaide Festival in 1998.
IP has expanded to an international publishing company with fourimprints under his direction, and Reiter continues to publish his work under those imprints, especially histransmedia and children's titles. In demand as a speaker and workshop leader, Reiter undertakes national tours and residencies in Australia and overseas. His interest in digital composing andpublishing has led him to become regarded as an expert in Australia on the subject, where IP is a market leader[citation needed] in the development and distribution of digital titles. IP has also forged a number of partnerships with overseas companies such asLightning Source,google.com,apple.com,Createspace,Amazon,OverDrive,gardners.com andkobo.com in promoting its digital program.[citation needed]
Reiter has been awriter-in-residence at theBanff Centre for the Arts,Canada; the Katharine Prichard Centre in Perth;Bundanon in New South Wales, and inAuckland, New Zealand, at theMichael King Writers Centre in 2008. His work has been translated into several languages including French, German, Spanish and Portuguese, and is currently being translated into Chinese.[citation needed]
 |
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| After the world has ended | 1996 | Reiter, David P. (May 1996). "After the world has ended".Quadrant.40 (5): 57. |
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Other | |
