David Wilson is the singer, guitar player and songwriter in the bands Miss Ohio and Summer Husbands. As a member of Miss Ohio, he has spent over twenty years recording and performing extensively. In 2016, the band released "White Hot: The Best of Miss Ohio". In 2024, the band is set to release a new album in early 2025
His project, David Wilson and the Summer Husbands, has release three eps via Pyrrhic Victory Recordings.
As a writer, his work has appeared in places like Atlas Obscura, Gawker, The Awl and the Morning News.
As a teacher, he has received grants from Fund For Teachers, which sent him to Rwanda to study the 1994 genocide of Tutsis, and to England to recreate the journey taken by Chaucer’s pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales. He has also received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and The Academy for Teachers.
He has a BA from Rutgers University and an MFA from the New School.