David Kernot is a South Australian author who writes contemporary fantasy, science fiction, climate fiction, crime thrillers, and dark fiction/horror and has eighty short story publications in anthologies throughout Australia, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. His work has appeared in over 30 different printed publications worldwide. David is the indie author of Not Like Us (2024), Gateway Through Time (2020), Impossible Futures: The Collected Works (2020), Beam Rider (2015), The Search for Giselle (2014), Future Worlds (2014), Autumn Comes Slowly (2013), Panspermic Earth (2013), and The Early Years (2013).

David has judged the Australasian Horror Writers Association Shadow Awards and the Aurealis Awards, Australia’s premier awards for speculative fiction. He was an editor for Australia’s speculative fiction magazine, The Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, and he is a member of the Australian Crime Writers Association.