David A. Poulsen
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David A. Poulsen

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Biography David A. Poulsen has been a broadcaster, teacher, football coach, rodeo cowboy, stage and film actor and—most of all—writer. His writing career began in earnest when his story The Welcomin’ won the 1984 Alberta Culture Short Story Competition. Now the author of 27 books, many for middle readers and young adults, David recently completed his Masters degree in Creative Writing at UBC. He divides his time between his small ranch in the Alberta foothills southwest of Calgary and a second home in Maricopa, Arizona. He was the recipient of an Alberta Centennial Medal in 2005 for “service to Alberta and Albertans.” In 2011 David’s young adult novel Numbers was selected for the Sakura Medal (awarded by English speaking high school students in Japan to their favourite novel of the year). As a result David toured International Schools in Japan and Korea in the fall of 2011. Numbers has since been added to the new English curriculum for Grade 10 in Saskatchewan. His 2013 novel, Old Man, a YA/Adult crossover novel was launched to excellent reviews from CanLit, CCBC, Quill and Quire and the National Post, among others. David served as the Writer in Residence at the Saskatoon Public Library in 2012/13. But it’s his recent foray into the world of crime fiction that has him really excited. “Mystery has been my favourite genre for as long as I can remember but although I read mysteries voraciously, I always doubted that I’d be able to write one.”Poulsen admits. “That maybe my mind didn’t work in the ways the really good crime writers’ minds do—people like Rankin, Kellerman, Connelly, Bowen and so many others that I admire. But I had an idea for what I thought might make an intriguing story and started playing with it and finally, after a lot of sweating, swearing and gnashing of teeth, I actually had my first crime novel.” The book is Serpents Rising, released by Dundurn Publishing in October, 2014 and launched in Toronto, Saskatoon and Calgary. The book hit #3 on the Saskatoon bestsellers list and #1 in Calgary in the final weeks of 2014. “I’m hoping that the response to the book just might result in it being the first in a series—the Cullen and Cobb Mysteries." To that end, Poulsen is already hard at work on the follow-up book that re-unites journalist, Adam Cullen, and ex-cop turned private detective, Mike Cobb. I wrote that last paragraph in 2015...and guess what--my dream of a series came true. The Cullen and Cobb Mysteries now has four titles to date--Serpents Rising, Dead Air, Last Song Sung and None So Deadly--with a fifth book in the series in the works. It has been the most exciting part of my writing career so far and I'm truly optimistic that the best is yet to come.
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