David Huebert is the author of the short story collections Peninsula Sinking and Chemical Valley and the debut novel Oil People. His writing has won the CBC Short Story Prize and the Alistair MacLeod Short Fiction Prize and has been a finalist for the Journey Prize, the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. His novel, Oil People, has been called “lyrical,” “elegant” and “wildly hallucinatory” and received the 2025 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. David has previously taught fiction writing at Dalhousie, The University of New Brunswick. He lives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax) with his partner and two children.
