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 nonfiction work Miscast: Who Owns the Story on Stage? (2026) examines twenty-five centuries of casting authority in the American theatre and argues that the playwright, not the institution, controls who a character is. His original fiction includes Passage Land, a 160-year multigenerational saga following three family lineages across the Great Plains from 1866 to 2026; The Dark Matter People, a work of science fiction; and Cat Heads in Space. His Fractional Fiction series, now eight volumes from The Dying Grove through Standard Deviation, 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. The Westborough Crusaders, a YA trilogy adapted from his 1982 WGA-registered television scripts, and the tragedies The Wound Remains Faithful and Beautiful Numbness extend his range across genre and form. The God in the Wire and What the Land Remembers examine technology, faith, and cultural memory.

With Janna Sweenie, he co-authored the ASL Linguistics for Practitioners series: Arm Angles in American Sign Language, Depicting Space, and Beyond the Hands, advanced textbooks examining proximal articulation, spatial grammar, and applied linguistics in signed discourse. He has taught American Sign Language at NYU and founded the CUNY School of Professional Studies ASL Program. He publishes Prairie Voice, a literary journalism publication covering hidden economic systems in rural America. 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.