David Yoo is a graduate from Skidmore College with an MA from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He is the author of the YA novels Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before, a Chicago Best of the Best selection, and Girls For Breakfast (Delacorte), a Booksense Pick, an NYPL Books For the Teen Age selection, and a Reading Rants Top Ten Books for Teens choice.

His first middle grade novel, The Detention Club (Balzer + Bray) was published in 2011. His first collection of essays, The Choke Artist: Confessions of a Chronic Underachiever (Grand Central) is forthcoming June 2012. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and son, where he regularly plays adult soccer and old school video games. He teaches in the MFA program at Pine Manor College and at the Gotham Writers’ Workshop.