Dave is currently a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, where he studies creative writing, philosophy, religion, and other subjects highly desired in the modern workforce. He also serves as a teaching assistant in Penn’s massive open online course on modern American Poetry, Modpo, and as Assistant Poetry Editor for Cleaver Magazine.

His work has appeared in Boston Literary Magazine, Cleaver Magazine, Apiary Online, Humor Press, and PennAppetit, as well as more avant garde journals, such as the Dickinson Law Review and the New Jersey Law Journal.