Stavanger, David

David Stavanger is a poet, performer, cultural producer, editor and lapsed psychologist. In 2013 he won the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, resulting in The Special (UQP), which was awarded the 2015 Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize. David was selected as a 2018 Melbourne Visiting Poet by RMIT/Australian Poetry and was Co-Director of the Queensland Poetry Festival (2015-17). David is also known as Green Room-nominated spoken word artist Ghostboy. These days he lives between the stage and the page.