Asanas and Other Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780692687840)

David Wood was born in Manassas, Virginia in 1957. He grew up in Pittsburgh, graduating from Baldwin High School in 1975 and later getting a Bachelors of Arts from the University of South Florida in 1979. Later he studied comparative literature and comparative religion at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. He began writing at the age of twelve, but never published anything until he got to college. He joined "The Seminar," a writing group in Eugene run by R. Gaines Smith, and had two stories published in the anthology, Popular Fiction by Oregon Authors. He has been editor or associate editor of a half dozen small press publications and newsletters. He continued writing and publishing stories, poems and short pieces about his life. His first book, Inside, Outside, was a collection of anecdotes and vignettes of his life experiences. He now lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he still writes and works. He has a dog named Rex and a car named Daido.