David Oppegaard is the author of Claw Heart Mountain (Marble Press, IPPY Bronze Medal Winner for Horror and Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Top Pick), The Town Built on Sorrow (Flux), The Firebug of Balrog County (Flux-Minnesota Book Award finalist), the Bram Stoker-nominated The Suicide Collectors (St. Martin’s Press), And the Hills Opened Up (Burnt Bridge), The Ragged Mountains (self published) and Wormwood, Nevada (St. Martin’s Press).David grew up in the small town of Lake Crystal, MN, and completed his first novel at the age of fifteen. David’s work is a blend of YA, literary fiction, science fiction, horror, and dark fantasy. He holds an M.F.A. in Writing from Hamline University and a B.A. in English from St. Olaf College. He has worked as an optician, a receptionist, a standardized test scorer, a farm hand, an editorial assistant, a trash picker, a library assistant, a seasonal bookstore employee, and as a child minder on a British cruise ship. He currently works at the University of Minnesota as a scholarship specialist and lives in St. Paul, MN, with his wife and their cat.