David O’Neill is a writing coach, editor, and author specializing in nonfiction, art writing, and cultural criticism. He has been an editor at Bookforum magazine since 2008 and has over a decade of experience as a freelance editor of essays, art books, novels, book proposals, and pitches. He’s taught writing at the School of Visual Arts, the New School for Social Research, and Catapult. He's a professional writing coach at the Gilliam Writers Group. He was an associate editor of Jason Moran’s LOOP magazine and an archivist at the ACLU. His writing has appeared in Affidavit, Artforum, 4Columns, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New Yorker’s Page Turner, the Paris Review Daily, and the Times Literary Supplement. In 2018, he co-edited the book Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz, published by Semiotext(e).