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- Birthplace: Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
- Birthdate: 11 January 1957
- Email: jopnquog@gmail.com
- Webpage: http://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/
- Webpage: http://dreamnnightmare.livejournal.com
- Webpage: http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?id=94629
- Used These Alternate Names: David Kopaska-Merkel , Lawrence Harding
- ISFDB Record Number: 15329
- Biography: Bio:David C. Kopaska-Merkel
- Bibliographic Comments: Author:David C. Kopaska-Merkel
- Author Tags: fantasy (1)
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- underfoot (1991)
- a round white hole (1993)
- The Conspiracy Unmasked (1994)
- hunger (1996)
- Results of a preliminary investigation of the electrochemical properties of some organic matrices (1999)
- Y2K Survival Kit (1999)
- The Ruined City (2003)
- Shoggoths (2003)
- The Deadbolt Casebook (2004)
- the egg show (2005)
- I don't know what you're having (2005)
- Separate Destinations (2005) with Kendall Evans
- The Memory of Persistence (2007)
- Hasp Deadbolt, Private Eye (2007)
- Drowning Atlantis (2007)
- Nursery Rhyme Noir (2008)
- Night Ship to Never (2009) with Kendall Evans
- The Simian Transcript (2010)
- Brushfires (2010)
- The Tin Men (2011) with Kendall Evans
- Dreams & Nightmares
- Dreams & Nightmares - 1986 (1986)
- Dreams & Nightmares - 1987 (1987)
- Dreams & Nightmares - 1988 (1988)
- Dreams & Nightmares - 1989 (1989)
- Dreams & Nightmares - 1990 (1990)
- Dreams & Nightmares - 1991 (1991)
- Dreams & Nightmares - 1992 (1992)
- Dreams & Nightmares - 1993 (1993)
- Dreams & Nightmares - 1994 (1994)
- Dreams & Nightmares - 1995 (1995)
- Dreams & Nightmares - 1996 (1996)
- Dreams & Nightmares - 1997 (1997)
- Dreams & Nightmares - 1998 (1998)
- Dreams & Nightmares - 1999 (1999)
- Dreams & Nightmares - 2000 (2000)
- Dreams & Nightmares - 2001 (2001)
- Dreams & Nightmares - 2002 (2002)
- Dreams & Nightmares - 2003 (2003)
- Dreams & Nightmares - 2004 (2004)
- Dreams & Nightmares - 2005 (2005)
- Dreams & Nightmares - 2006 (2006)
- Dreams & Nightmares - 2007 (2007)
- Dreams & Nightmares - 2008 (2008)
- Dreams & Nightmares - 2009 (2009)
- Dreams & Nightmares - 2010 (2010)
- Dreams & Nightmares - 2011 (2011)
- Dreams & Nightmares - 2012 (2012)
- Dreams & Nightmares - 2013 (2013)
- Star*Line
- Star*Line - 1996 (1996)
- Star*Line - 1997 (1997)
- Star*Line - 1998 (1998)
- Star*Line - 1999 (1999)
- Star*Line - 2000 (2000)
- Star*Line - 2001 (2001)
- Star*Line - 2002 (2002)
- Magic: A Collection of the Fantastical (1995) with Morgan Kopaska-Merkel [only as by David Kopaska-Merkel and Morgan Kopaska-Merkel ]
- Robert Zelazny (2013)
- Just Desserts (1981)
- More Than Half Dead on Page Two (1982) [only as by David Kopaska-Merkel ]
- Tears of the Worm (1984)
- Through Outrageous Angles (1986) with Ronald McDowell
- The Epiphenomena of Morphogenesis (1986)
- Letter from a Poet (1988)
- The Ring (1988)
- Psychic Powers (1999) [only as by David Kopaska-Merkel ]
- Septet in Necrophiliac Gang-Bang with Deceased Underage Love Slave (2000)
- Phantoms (2003)
- The Crystalline Pool (2006)
- The Whiskies (2007)
- The Figurine (2007)
- Tails You Lose (2007)
- Serial Salvage (2008) with Kendall Evans
- The Scream (2008)
- Are You Sirius? (2008) with Kendall Evans
- Captain Marshmallow (2009)
- Looking Backward (1985) [only as by Lawrence Harding ]
- Eye to I (1986) [only as by Lawrence Harding ]
- Hunting of the Tark (1986) [only as by Lawrence Harding ]
- Where the Leopard Put Its Spots (1986)
- Thrust (1986) [only as by Lawrence Harding ]
- What the Iguana Said (1986)
- The Watch (1986) [only as by Lawrence Harding ]
- Eleph-Ants (1986)
- An Old Man of Rangoon (1986) [only as by Lawrence Harding ]
- Krzysztof Ostaszewski (1986)
- collage (1986) [only as by David Kopaska-Merkel ]
- Stop breaking down (1986)
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Bleeding Fingers (1987)
only appeared as:
- Variant Title: Bleeding Fingers (1987) [as by Lawrence Harding ]
- Variant Title: Bleeding Fingers (1992) [as by David Kopaska-Merkel ]
- Lost Eons (1987) [only as by Lawrence Harding ]
- Black Jewels of the Toad (1987) [only as by Lawrence Harding ]
- Pearls of Rain (1987)
- Goldfish in My Head (1987)
- The Wings of a Bat (1987) [only as by Lawrence Harding ]
- Untitled ("Lives without number") (1987)
- Entropy's Eddy (1987) [only as by Lawrence Harding ]
- Time Lies (1987) [only as by David Kopaska-Merkel ]
- The Fisherman (1987) [only as by Lawrence Harding ]
- Dream and Nightmare (1987) [only as by David Kopaska-Merkel ]
- Ikons (1987)
- I Wish That I Were Back in Auckland (1988)
- Iapetus Ascendant (1988)
- Elision Feels . . . . (1988) [only as by Lawrence Harding ]
- Under the Gazebo's Roof (1988) [only as by Lawrence Harding ]
- The Conspiracy Unmasked (1989) [only as by Lawrence Harding ]
- How Thoughtless of Me! (1989) [only as by Lawrence Harding ]
- Chicken Livers (1989)
- Cold Air (1989)
- Fog in the City, the City in the Sea (1989)
- The air flows turgid . . . (1989)
- Basilisk (1989)
- Pantoum for the Continental Crust (1989)
- No Less Unwelcome Is the Cruddle (1990) [only as by Lawrence Harding ]
- So You Want to Build a Hyperspace Relay Station! (1990) [only as by Lawrence Harding ]
- The Borsil (1990)
- Oblivion Tanka (1990)
- Free (1990)
- The Lilies Have Dried... (1990)
- Untitled (1990)
- after hours (1990)
- Graveyard Angels (1991) with Robert Frazier [only as by David Kopaska-Merkel and Robert Frazier ]
- The Write Rebuttal (1992) [only as by David Kopaska-Merkel ]
- Dail E Morb (1992) [only as by David Kopaska-Merkel ]
- The Garden (1992) [only as by David Kopaska-Merkel ]
- The Backward-Turning Head (1992) [only as by David Kopaska-Merkel ]
- Jambalaya (1992) [only as by David Kopaska-Merkel ]
- Glass Tiger (1992)
- The Long Slow Journey (1992) with Valerie Bodell and Jennifer Grender and Sheila Kopaska-Merkel
- The Staircase of Dreams (1992) with Valerie Bodell and Jennifer Grender and Sheila Kopaska-Merkel
- Windmill Eyes (1992) with Valerie Bodell and Jennifer Grender and Sheila Kopaska-Merkel
- back door ward (1992)
- Orion, Rising (1992)
- Listen (1992)
- Monkeys typing prose (1992)
- barefoot (1992)
- Dreams and Nightmares 37 (1992)
- On Becoming a Fish (1993) [only as by David Kopaska-Merkel ]
- Convergencies (1993) [only as by David Kopaska-Merkel ]
- "Dust Is Us, Dust Is Us" (1993) [only as by David Kopaska-Merkel ]
- But It Was Just A Dream (1993)
- Generation Ships (1993)
- A Capital Affair (1993)
- Sky Whales (1993)
- Debbie longed for the grip (1994)
- Ask for a security deposit (1994)
- Is There Life on Mars (1995) with Sue Storm [only as by David Kopaska-Merkel and Sue Storm ]
- Eye of Moon (1995) with Sue Storm [only as by Sue Storm and David Kopaska-Merkel ]
- It turned out to be easy to make a woman (1995)
- Phase Transition (1995)
- Untitled (1995)
- Living on God's Street (1995)
- Brain Capers (1995)
- There is no Life upon the Earth (1996)
- The Robot Responds (1996)
- So Let's Eat (1996)
- I'm Hungry Again (1996)
- brine time (1996)
- the vampire explains everything (1996)
- in space they don't eat the skin (1996)
- Star Whales (1996)
- The Furnace Needs Fixing (1996)
- To bring you back (1997)
- Casey Jones (1997)
- melting ice (1997)
- millennium debs (1997)
- brine time (1997)
- Cab Lives Again (1998) [only as by David Kopaska-Merkel ]
- Why People Still Die (1998)
- Ice Crystals on the Brain (1999)
- Clark the Ripper (1999)
- Redshifted Vampire (2000)
- Sister Sausage (2000)
- Carmen believed that she was being followed (2000)
- Another Inmate in the Zoo (2000) with Ian Watson
- The Revenant (2000)
- Murder in Real Time (2001)
- Lich (2001)
- Winter's Page (2001) [only as by Lawrence Harding ]
- "On the underside of time . . . " (2001)
- Ghost Lakes (2001)
- Journey to the Center of the Planet of the Poets (2001) [only as by David Kopaska-Merkel ]
- Time and Again and Again (2001) [only as by David Kopaska-Merkel ]
- The Arrow of Morning (2001)
- Lich Light (2001)
- Year Three of the Drought (2001)
- An Open Letter to Our Astronauts (2001)
- Wild Horses (2002)
- Untitled Couplet (2002)
- meteor shower (2002)
- Medusa's Tale (2002)
- Parchment Found in an Antique Book (2002) with Kendall Evans
- Reefs (2002) with Kendall Evans
- dreams of love (2002)
- Going Down with Jasmine (2002)
- The Werewolf Explanation (2002)
- A Voyage to the Moon (2002)
- Eleven Love Poems (2002)
- Suicycle (2002)
- The Ait (2002) [only as by David Kopaska-Merkel ]
- Long Voyage (2002)
- Albazar (2002) [only as by David Kopaska-Merkel ]
- Superheroes (2002)
- The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd (2002)
- The Length of a Candle (2003)
- The Mad Scientist Has All the Time in the World (2003)
- Eel Week (2003)
- Beyond the Mad/Funhouse (2003) with Kendall Evans
- Portrait of the Mad Scientist's Wife (2003)
- Walking the Dog (2003) with Kendall Evans
- Brochure at the Cryo-Ship Stand (2003)
- In His Cloak Still Freezing (2003)
- Mythic Delirium (2004) with Kendall Evans
- Variations on the Songs of Seraphim Downloaded to a Hybrid Medium (2004) with Kendall Evans [only as by David Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans ]
- Supersonic Rocketeers (2004)
- we fell (2004)
- Under the Farm (2004)
- fecundity (2004) with Kendall Evans
- Stars (2004)
- Of Time and the Teeth of the Black Dog (2004) with Kendall Evans
- Quietly Stealing the Sun (2004)
- Excess Baggage (2004)
- The Tin Men (2005) with Kendall Evans
- The Bitter Watches (2005)
- The Bus Stops Here (2005) with Kendall Evans
- Wise and now-departed uncles (2005)
- Potato Pilots (2005)
- Macramé Williams on the Lake Titicaca (2005)
- Eleven signs that you are in a handbasket (2005)
- Rattlebox (2005) with Mike Allen
- Tsunami Child (2005)
- Application of Einstein's Theories to Personal Affairs (2005)
- Compute This (2006) with Kendall Evans
- De Chasma Vermiculatus aenigmatus (2006) with Kendall Evans
- SETI Hits Pay Dirt (2006)
- A Story for Winter (2006)
- Practical Zombies (2006) with Mike Allen
- The mad scientist creates life (2006)
- breathe (2006)
- In Wicked Hollows, on Darkling Plains (2006) with Kendall Evans
- Home at Last (2006)
- Heads (2006)
- The Spider Wakes (2006) with Deborah P. Kolodji
- Granite Fingers (2007) [only as by Lawrence Harding ]
- The Beetles' Dung, The Bird's Blind Eye (2007) with Kendall Evans
- Jumping into the System (2007)
- Frayed Worlds (2007) with Wendy Rathbone
- The Last Astronaut (2007) with Kendall Evans [also as by Kendall Evans and David Kopaska-Merkel ]
- Réanimation Médicale (2007)
- A Sliver of Light in Darkness (2007)
- Dear Astronaut (2007)
- The Quince Bedroom (2007)
- The Basement Is My Home (2007)
- The Gates (2007) with W. Gregory Stewart
- The Whole Continent a Total Loss (2007)
- Cher Amazon (2008)
- Mushroom Agriculture (2008)
- Robo-Cat® (2008) with Kendall Evans
- Monoculture (2008)
- The Clone Ship Captain (2008)
- Laurentia Burning (2008)
- A Winter's Night (2008)
- Not Without a Struggle (2009) with Kendall Evans
- Apparition House (2009) with Wendy Rathbone
- Raised by Wolves (2009)
- Untitled (2009)
- The last time, we trust (2009)
- The Fifth Age (2009)
- She's in the ice (2009)
- Split Decisions (2009) with Kendall Evans
- Rattlebox III (2009) with Mike Allen and Kendall Evans
- Marbles (2009)
- Hunting Party (2009)
- two haiku (2010)
- Tweaking the World Bundle (Comstock's Synopsis of Improbable Events) (2010) with Kendall Evans
- Tangerine (2010)
- untitled (2010)
- I Thought I Knew His Father (2011)
- No limits, an event from 3 perspectives (2011) with W. Gregory Stewart
- At the Duck Convention (2011)
- Strange Oblivion (2011)
- Why we can't all get along (2012)
- Submicro-Text Message 3V45129XZ: To My AI Valentine (2012) with Kendall Evans
- The Egg Show (2012)
- The Franchises of Time (2012)
- untitled (2012)
- Recycle (2012)
- You Are Never Supposed to Answer the Door (2013)
- Out of My Price Range (2013)
- From the Brain Stem
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #28) (1989)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #29) (1989)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #30/31) (1990)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #33) (1991)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #41) (1993)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #42) (1994)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #45) (1995)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #46) (1996)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #49) (1997)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #50) (1998)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #55) (2000)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #56) (2000)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #57) (2000)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #58) (2001)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #59) (2001)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #60) (2001)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #61) (2002)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #62) (2002)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #63) (2002)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #64) (2003)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #66) (2003)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #68) (2004)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #70) (2005)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #71) (2005)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #72) (2005)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #74) (2006)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #75) (2006)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #76) (2007)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #78) (2007)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #79) (2008)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #80) (2008)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #81) (2008)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #83) (2009)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #84) (2009)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #85) (2010)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #86) (2010)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #87) (2010)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #88) (2011)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #89) (2011)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #90) (2011)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #91) (2012)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #92) (2012)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #93) (2012)
- From the Brain Stem (Dreams & Nightmares #94) (2013)
- Letter (Aboriginal, February-March 1987) (1987)
- Letter (Pulphouse, October 25, 1991) (1991)
- Letter (Pulphouse, July 1992) (1992)
- Deep Time (1994)
- Incoming! (1996)
- Quelle Horreur? (1996)
- Editorial (Star*Line, March-April 1997) (1997)
- The Rhysling and Other Matters (1997)
- Where Goldfish Roost (1998)
- Fry Me in Butter and Call Me a Catfish (1998)
- Happy as a Dead Pig in the Sunshine (1998)
- Been Plaid So Long It Looks Like Mauve to Me (1998)
- Globules in the Air Lock (1998)
- You all look like ants! (1999)
- Just Fell Off the Truck (1999)
- And Hit the Ground Bouncing! (1999)
- You All Look Like Little Ants! (1999)
- She's already been IN to see him! (2000)
- SFPA, where are you? (2000)
- Unexpectedly, it was night (2000)
- Editorials of the Wankh (2000)
- In One Paw or the Other (2000)
- Planet of the Poets (2000)
- Millennennimum (2001)
- Beneath the Planet of the Poets (2001)
- The Wax Fruit Lozenge (2001) [only as by David Kopaska-Merkel ]
- In Which I Find What's in My Pocket (2001) [only as by David Kopaska-Merkel ]
- The Continuing Adventures of Joanie Peachpit (2002) [only as by David Kopaska-Merkel ]
- Dark Collaborations (2005) with Kendall Evans
- The Dark Surreal Garden of Verses (2009)
- From the Small Press (2011)
- Not the Home World (2012)
- Catamount Press, a poem sampling (1997) by Georgette Perry
- Strange But Not a Stranger (2003) by James Patrick Kelly [only as by David Kopaska-Merkel ]