David Vernon

I am a freelance writer and editor.  I am father of two boys.  For the last few years I have focussed my writing interest on chronicling women and men’s experience of childbirth and promoting better support for pregnant women and their partners. 

I recently completed a book entitled With Women which examines the experiences of midwives caring for women.  I am currently working on an anthology of stories about women’s (and men’s) experiences with postnatal depression, entitled Australians Talk.

My latest book, The Hunt for Marasmus gives me the opportunity to combine my interest in Australian history with  my fascination with science, pseudoscience and scepticism.

I have had some recent successes in publishing short stories, with The Writers appearing in the quarterly publication “Writer’s Block” and The Ladybird Hunter being published in the monthly juvenile fiction magazine “Cherubbuble.”

I regularly write material for a range of Australian birth magazines and also for The Australian Skeptic.  Some of my other material has appeared in Sunday Life Magazine, the ABC Website “Unleashed” and The Canberra Times.