David Gollub was born in 1951, the son of an opera singer and a trial lawyer. He got a BA from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Stanford. He met David Lerner in Palo Alto in 1973. Lerner got him his first poetry publication. He has been on the Bay Area poetry scene since April 7, 1983, when he showed up at the Old Spaghetti Factory in North Beach. He participated in the Cafe Babar reading series in the Mission, and for a time ran the series. It was at the Babar that he re-encountered David Lerner. He also edited and published Bull Horn, a monthly photocopied poetry magazine. His most recent book is You, Of Course (2014) from Zeitgeist Press, anthologizing his previous chapbooks As For Us and As Needed For Rage.  He lives in North Berkeley.