David Hull was born in Regina, and grew up in Owen Sound, Ontario. His work has appeared in The Walrus, Canadian Literature, The Malahat, The Fiddlehead, ON SPEC, and elsewhere. He was the winner of the 1998 Prairie Fire Long Fiction competition, judged by the late Matt Cohen. His first novel, The Realm of Means, was published by Dumagrad Books in 2017. He lives in Toronto.