A writer, poet, and teacher, David A. Blyler published Shared Solitude, his first collection of poems and a one-act play, in 1994. The following year he collaborated with artist Marcus Reichert on the book Diary of a Seducer, composing a suite of poems to accompany a collection of early Reichert drawings (1970-1971). In 1997 he left for Europe, where he traveled extensively before taking a job as a foreign language lecturer and creative writing teacher at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic.