David Boles has been writing and publishing books for more than 50 years. He founded David Boles Books Writing and Publishing in 1975 and has written for traditional publishers including IDG/Wiley, Glencoe, Thomson/Cengage, Barnes & Noble, and McGraw-Hill. A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, David holds an MFA from Columbia University's Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Graduate Theatre Studies and now works in New York City as an author, dramatist, publisher, and editor.

His recent original fiction includes Passage Land, a 160-year multigenerational saga following three family lineages across the Great Plains from 1866 to 2026, and the Fractional Fiction series: The Dying Grove, The Inheritance, and The Kinship of Strangers. Fractional Fiction is a literary methodology that synthesizes public domain masterworks with contemporary scientific research to create works that honor their sources while speaking to present concerns. His EleMenTs trilogy brings young adult fantasy to questions of identity and belonging, following three teenage girls with disabilities who discover they command elemental powers. His tragedy The Wound Remains Faithful: A Tragedy of Nora bears witness to the missing and murdered.

With Janna Sweenie, he co-authored Arm Angles in American Sign Language, an advanced textbook examining proximal articulation in signed discourse. He has taught American Sign Language at NYU and founded the CUNY School of Professional Studies ASL Program. Since 2016, he has created and hosted the Human Meme podcast, exploring consciousness and the human condition through philosophical inquiry and narrative storytelling. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Authors Guild, and PEN America.