Rhett Davis

About Me

I've worked as a Business Analyst for a number of years but have recently taken some time off to do my MFA at the University of British Columbia. I mostly write fiction and have had a few stories published in Australian journals and magazines The Big Issue, Sleepers Almanac, Page Seventeen, and Verandah.

Why do you write?

A dose of sunlight early in the morning helps. Coffee helps more than I'd like to admit. Seeing or hearing something strange. Old trees that have seen several generations come and go. Music. Long walks. Places where trains go to die. Books, and by association, bookstores. Those sorts of things.

Any favorite authors? Books?

Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones
Stephen Millhauser - The Knife Thrower
Vladimir Navokov - Pale Fire
Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities
Georges Perec - Life: A User's Manual
John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
Helen Garner - Joe Cinque's Consolation

and Raymond Queneau, J.M. Coetzee, Haruki Murakami, Donald Barthelme, Kurt Vonnegut, Dino Buzzati, Alice Munro, Anton Chekov, B.S. Johnson, Toni Morrison, Steven Amsterdamn, John Cheever, Lorrie Moore, Salman Rushdie, Wayne Macauley, Stansilaw Lem, Jennifer Egan, Cesar Aira, Peter Carey, Flannery O'Conner, George Saunders, Robert Louis Stevenson, Cervantes, Roald Dahl, Margaret Attwood, Ryan O'Neill, Etgar Keret, Don Delillo, Nikolai Gogol, Franz Kafka, Orhan Pamuk, Philip K. Dick, Richard Flanagan, Edgar Allan Poe, Gerald Murnane, Danilo Kis, Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Julio Cortazar, Raymond Carver, Albert Camus, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Chandler, Shaun Tan, J.G. Ballard...