David Henry Sterry is also a teacher, consultant and talent scout for the Levine Greenberg Literary Agency. He taught writers about publishing with Putting Your Passion Into Print at Stanford for three years, and many of his students have book deals. PYPIP has now been presented, in various forms, hundreds of times, in colleges, universities, libraries, bookstores and festivals, writer's workshops, on TV, radio and in print. He's also taught writing, performing, and creating theater from life, everywhere from Reed College, to University of New Orleans, to San Francisco State; and to teenagers in NYC, SAGE in SF, and for the United States Department of Justice, in Washington, DC. He is also a presentation coach and pitch doctor, working with lawyers, models, architects, actors and writers, helping them present themselves and their ideas with clarity and passion. As a book doctor he has helped dozens of writers become published authors.

David Henry Sterry is also a performer. "Chicken", the show, began at the Marsh Theater in SF, and was named one of the Year's Best Shows in the SF Chronicle. It premiered internationally at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and was named the UK's #1 play. He's performed "Chicken" all over America from Manhattan to Hollywood, and all over the world, from Amsterdam to Australia. As a stand-up comedian, performed with everyone from Robin Williams to Milton Berle. As an actor, worked with everyone from Will Smith to David Letterman to Michael Caine to Zippy the Chimp. He was a TV pitchman for AT&T, Proctor & Gamble, and McDonald's, performed in over 750 commercials, winning 4 Clios. Starred in HBO's Emmy Award-winning Encyclopedia. Emceed at Chippendale's Male Strip Club in New York.

Been featured in (among others): The New York Times, The London Times, The Sunday Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Details Magazine, BBC Radio, and NPR's Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, and Talk of the Nation. Chicken was published by Canongate in the UK in April, 2003, Dutch (de Kern), German (Rowohlt,
2005), Spanish (Grupo Planeta, 2006), Croatian (Celeber, 2006), and Russia (Red Fish, 2006), and Italian (Adelphi, 2008).

He's worked as a chicken, a chicken fryer, a soda jerk, a cherry picker, a poet, a building inspector, a limo driver, a barker, and a marriage counselor. He graduated from Reed College, and loves his wife, his cat, his girl, and any sport involving a ball.