David Houston Jones

David Houston Jones has published prose poetry and speculative fiction in Dead Charles, Cambridge

Poetry Review, Mask, Avatar anthology and NewMyths. His recent writing is concerned with the forensic and the archival. He is a university lecturer and lives in Exeter, UK.

Get to know David...

Birthdate? 16/08/1972

When and what and where did you first get published?

I published some prose-poetry in small magazines in the UK in the 90s. I was very involved in that scene and have fond memories of it, blended it with a kind of SF-inflected media nostalgia...

Why do you write?

I’m interested in the creation of speculative worlds and in capturing the evidence of those worlds. I have a particular interest in some of the visual projects which arise from that problem and my academic research is in art history. In my writing, the genre of alien remote storage comedy is a particular focus.

Why do you write Science Fiction and/or Fantasy?

I've always read a lot of Science Fiction. The early stuff I wrote isn't SF but it's peppered with references to journeys, drives and obscure instruments, so perhaps it was SF in disguise.

Who is your favorite author? Your favorite story?

Classic SF, Asimov, Kurt Vonnegut. A lot of modern French authors, including Jean Genet and Marcel Proust. Samuel Beckett, Philip K. Dick, Bruno Schulz, Kafka, plus contemporaries including David Mitchell, Derek Kunsken, Ursula LeGuin, and Ann Leckie.

Do you blog?

Yes. At https://dhjones05.wixsite.com/website