David Samuel Hudson is a Maltese author and award-winning journalist. He is the recipient of a distinction in a creative writing Master's degree from Bath Spa University, where his novel manuscript was shortlisted for the Janklow and Nesbit prize. He has worked as a content writer, a book prize adjudicator, and an English teacher, and is now finishing his YA fantasy debut. His fiction has won prizes in the United Kingdom and the United States and has been featured on Business Weekly, NPR, and the Chicago Review of Books.