David Cohen is a Wellington-based writer and journalist whose work has appeared frequently in publications in New Zealand and abroad. An anthology, Greatest Hits: A Quarter Century of Journalistic Encounters, Cultural Fulminations and Notes on Lost Cities, was published in 2014. The English writer Julie Burchill hailed the collection as "a brilliant album". The New Zealand Herald described it as "fearless". Man Booker Prize short lister Lloyd Jones wrote of Little Criminals: "David Cohen has taken an important piece of social history and unpacked it in a highly imaginative way. It is completely engrossing."