David Cameron was born in 1966, and spent his childhood in East Kilbride, near Glasgow, Scotland. After university in Aberdeen, Cameron worked in a Surrey residential school for children with epilepsy. While living in a cottage under the Forth Rail Bridge, he wrote the collection of stories Rousseau Moon (one of Robert Nye's Books of the Year in The Scotsman).A move to Amsterdam followed. Cameron taught English to Dutch military personnel there, and began working as a writer-editor in the cultural sector.Cameron now lives in County Leitrim, Ireland, with his wife (the glass artist Louise Rice) and their three young children. His short novel The Ghost of Alice Fields was chosen by Ron Butlin as one of his Books of the Year 2014 in the Sunday Herald. Cameron has also edited a posthumous edition of Martin Seymour-Smith's poems.In 2014 Cameron received the Hennessy Literary Award for poetry.