David dropped out of high school at 16, reconsidered, academically rehabilitated at a community college, transferred to Michigan State University, from which he graduated with honors, then went on to earn an M.A. from NYU (where he taught fiction writing to undergrads), and, finally, began work on a PhD at the UChicago, only – alas – to dip from its many-Nobel’ed premises ABD to begin laboring, all but unremunerated, in Chicago’s book publishing industry. All told, he has punched the clock as a writer, an editor, and a teacher at both the high school and community college levels. David has written book reviews for The Village Voice, quasi-political pieces for the Tampa arm of Creative Loafing, literary genre spreads for a Houghton Mifflin high school textbook, and marketing materials for the University of Chicago hospitals. Last January, David took a job teaching Adult Ed classes at a county jail, in part, to research the horror script he's working on. David’s first screenplay, THE SLEEPWALKER, was one of 10 finalists in Stage 32’s 2nd Annual Feature Screenwriting Fellowship Competition (2024) and was a semifinalist in two other screenwriting contests, but has yet to grab the golden goose, which, in David’s mind, is perhaps the single most irrefutable proof that there is no God.
