David Hobbs came to Northern California from Ohio in 1965. He worked his way through college as a firefighter with the U.S. Forest Service, and subsequently graduated with a double major in music and political science. His previous publications include articles written for the Humboldt State University literary magazine and a fictional biography called Waiting For The Dawn.

Not wanting to forget the unusual story of how, in his firefighting days, he changed from atheist to born-again Christian, David started his memoir, Out of the Fire, A Life Radically Changed. What began in December of 1989 at a seminary in Massachusetts, was finally completed and published in July of 2006 by 4L Press, a publishing company he started. Out of the Fire is on now its third printing.

He resides with his wife Marcine in Northern California.