Bio:David Oppegaard

David Oppegaard is the author of the Bram Stoker nominated The Suicide Collectors (St. Martin's Press). His second novel, Wormwood, Nevada was released in December of 2009 (St. Martin's Press). The Suicide Collectors was also published in Italy in February of 2010 by URANIA.

David was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and grew up in the small town of Lake Crystal, Minnesota. Lake Crystal had a population of 2,003 at the time and David spent a lot of time playing football, reading books, and cracking wise. He wrote his first book at the age of fifteen, a 400-page science fiction novel. Since then, he has written several more novels, some published, most not, and is currently working on his 9th novel. Each book has been different, ranging somewhere between literary fiction, speculative fiction, horror fiction, and dark fantasy. Even he is sometimes confused by the genre mishmash inside his head.

David holds a B.A. in English Literature from St. Olaf College and an M.F.A. in Writing from Hamline University. A finalist for the Indiana Review Fiction Award and the Iowa Fiction Award, David has worked as an optician, a receptionist at the U of MN, a standardized test scorer, a farm hand, an editorial assistant, a trash picker for St. Paul public housing, a library circulation assistant, and as a child minder on a British cruise ship.