I'm a writer, critic and academic based in Liverpool, England. My fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Point, Guernica, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The London Magazine, 3:AM,  and others. I'm the author of David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Holding The Ghost: A History of the Contemporary (forthcoming). 

 

In 2019 I was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize and in 2020 the Northern Book Prize. I've recently been commissioned to write essays for Radiance Films for their 2024 and 2025 blu-ray releases. I am always open to commissions for literature and film writing.

 

I'm currently seeking representation for a nonfiction book on cinema, and a novel. I can be contacted at d.hering [at] liverpool.ac.uk and via social media (see 'Contacts' page)

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