All website photography: Casey Curry

All website photography: Casey Curry

David Francis, based in Los Angeles where he works for the Norton Rose Fulbright law firm, spends part of each year back on his family’s farm in Australia. He is the author of The Great Inland Sea, published to acclaim in seven countries, and Stray Dog Winter, Book of the Year in The Advocate, winner of the American Library Association Barbara Gittings Prize for Literature and a LAMBDA Literary Award Finalist. He has taught creative writing at University of California, Los Angeles, Occidental College and in the Masters of Professional Writing program at University of Southern California. His short fiction and articles have appeared in publications including Harvard ReviewThe Sydney Morning HeraldSouthern California ReviewBest Australian Stories 2012 and 2014Australian Love Stories, Los Angeles Times and The Rattling Wall. In the fight for freedom of expression, David is a former Vice-President of PEN Center USA and is currently co--chair of PEN America’s Los Angeles Committee and a member of the board of directors of PEN International based in London.