Steven E. Wedel - Background

Background

Steven E. Wedel grew up in Enid, Oklahoma, graduating from Enid High School in 1984. He worked as a machinist for about 10 years, eventually moving to Oklahoma City to continue that career. He earned a bachelor of arts in journalism from the University of Central Oklahoma in 1999. While attending UCO he was a popular and often infamous columnist for The Vista, the campus newspaper, where he wrote two columns, Steven Says and Army of Grass. Wedel began working as a newspaper reporter for The Oklahoman while still in college. He continued working for The Oklahoman until fall of 2000, when he took a job as a writer in Conoco Inc.'s human resources division, transferring to Ponca City, Oklahoma, where he lived until Conoco and Phillips Petroleum Co. merged in 2003. Wedel then moved to Moore, Oklahoma, where he resumed his newspaper career for a short time before moving into the role of public relations director, first for Oklahoma City University, then the South Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce. Wedel earned a master of liberal studies degree from the University of Oklahoma in 2004. In 2006 he obtained a license to teach in Oklahoma and has worked as a high school English teacher since 2007. He now currently teaches English at Western Heights High School, and loves his seniors of 2013.

Wedel began writing in elementary school, but it was not until high school that he began to work seriously on his craft. He sold his first short story to The Midnight Zoo magazine in 1992. Many of his early short stories are collected in his book Darkscapes. His first novel, Shara, was originally published by 3F Publications in 2003 (3F Publications ceased to exist soon after and the book has since been republished by Scrybe Press). He currently has five books in print and has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. His bestselling title to date is Murdered by Human Wolves, a fictionalized account of the death of Katherine Cross.