David Moloney worked as a correctional officer for five years before returning to school. He received a BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he studied under Andre Dubus III and won the UMass Lowell Creative Writing Award in 2015. He earned his MFA from Southern New Hampshire's Mountainview low-residency program, where he won Assignment Magazine’s student writing contest. He was also awarded the Lynn Safford Memorial Prize. His debut novel, Barker House, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury in 2020. He currently teaches writing at UMass Lowell.