David is a faculty brat who left home at 16 and dropped out of high school, but after spinning his wheels in a number of strangely gratifying waystations in the restaurant industry for four years while sporadically attending a community college, he was admitted to Michigan State University from which he graduated with honors. He then earned an M.A. from NYU, where he taught fiction writing to undergrads while doing an internship at the Village Voice. His academic sojourn then saw him begin work on a PhD at the UChicago, only – alas – to leave more or less ABD to begin laboring, all but unremunerated, in Chicago’s book publishing industry.
All told, David has punched the clock as a writer, an editor, and a teacher at both the high school and community college levels. His fiction has appeared in Ark and Creative Loafing, which has also published his nonfiction writing (essays and politically inclined reportage). In addition, he has written book reviews for The Village Voice Literary Supplement and literary genre spreads for The Language of Literature, a Houghton Mifflin high school textbook series. For a little over a year now, he has been teaching Adult Education classes at the Pasco County Jail.
David’s first screenplay, THE SLEEPWALKER, was one of 10 finalists in Stage 32’s 2024 Screenwriting Fellowship Competition and was a semifinalist in the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, but has yet to grab the golden goose, which, in David’s mind, is the single most irrefutable proof that there is no God.
