David Coventry was born in 1969 in Wellington, New Zealand. He has an Honours degree in English from Victoria University, a BA in Literature and Religion. In 2010 he received a Masters in creative writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria. He has published fiction in Sport, The Dominion Post and Turbine. The Invisible Mile is his first book. In 2016 The Invisible Mile won a New Zealand Award in the fiction category.
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