David Hayes (author)

David Hayes is a Canadian feature writer, author, editor and teacher. He has written, co-written, or ghostwritten 13 nonfiction books and frequently works as a substantive editor. His articles, essays and reviews have appeared in many publications, among them Saturday Night, Report on Business, The Globe and Mail, Reader's Digest, ''The New York Times Magazine, The Walrus, Chatelaine, The Guardian, enRoute, Toronto Life, and National Post Business. He has won nine National Magazine Awards and, in 2009, an Amnesty International Media Award for a feature on refugee children abandoned at Canadian airports, published in Chatelaine''.
He began teaching in the School of Journalism at Toronto's Ryerson University in the late 1980s. He was an assistant professor on faculty there from 1995 to 2002. At that time, he returned to full-time journalism and taught Advanced Feature Writing in Toronto Metropolitan University's G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Studies from 2003 to 2018. He has been on the faculty of the University of King's College's Master of Fine Arts in Creative since 2013.
He gives workshops, lectures and appears on panels relating to feature writing, researching, reporting, and interviewing techniques and other aspects of journalism.