David Moles is a past finalist for the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (now the Astounding Award), and a past winner of and finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.

David’s fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and various anthologies.

A graduate of the American School in Japan, David has lived in Greece, Iran, Japan, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Spain, as well as several US states, and holds a BA in language studies from UC Santa Cruz, an MSc in economic and social history from the University of Oxford, and a Master of Information in library and information science / archives and preservation from Rutgers.

Having been employed at various times as a newspaper carrier, a farmhand, a floor salesperson, a receptionist, a technical writer, an IT technician, a web designer, a software engineer, and a creative consultant for alternate reality game design, David joined the University of California libraries in 2014, and is currently associate director for digital library engineering at the UC Santa Barbara Library.

David lives in Albany, California with partner Meredith Moles and their two children.