David Barringer is a writer and a teacher. He’s on a sabbatical from teaching in order to write novels.

I am in the fourth year of my sabbatical from teaching. I stopped teaching in June of 2021.

I was pretty excited to start my sabbatical and get to writing, and so I wrote two novels in the fall of 2021: Locke Writes a Story to Save His Life (coming-of-age) and A Box Came for You (horror).

In 2022, I wrote 40,000 words of a blog on writing and a rom-com novel entitled Let’s Not Do Maybe Again.

In 2023-24, I wrote a tech-noir novel, Work Order.

In 2024-25, I wrote a comic novel, Ogre Boss.

I’ve been a teacher since 2010, and in 2015, I made a conscious decision to use my summers to write novels. In 2015, I wrote SmartHome Rebel. In 2016, I wrote Monster Doctor. In 2017, I wrote Idol Wish. In 2018, I wrote Undercover Vulture. In 2019, I wrote the novel and screenplay Summer Clubbing.

In 2020, I wrote a dozen short stories, edited my past novels, continued to work on a writer’s memoir that spans 2014 to the present, and taught middle school and high school during the Covid-19 pandemic.

For eight years, I taught at Woodlawn School in North Carolina. I taught Language Arts in grades 7 and 8, English in grades 9 and 10, and electives in grades 6-12. I was faculty yearbook advisor for seven years, as well as the de facto school photographer, and I coached a basketball team or two.