David Stevenson enjoys writing poetry and prose, beading, leather-working, wool felting, various other crafting, reading graphic novels and books, playing video games, table top gaming, rock climbing, studying the lore of various cultures and many other strange and eclectic activities.
David Stevenson plays piano, the cedar flute, percussion and occasionally tortures a guitar.
Young David Stevenson's life was forever changed when in forth grade he was chosen as a narrator for the school melodrama. His mother then worked with the school to let him miss the last month of class to instead attend Theater School at the University of Utah, beginning a long lasting interest in theater that took over most of his high school years and ended up being his minor in college.
David Stevenson was raised in Utah in the vast suburbia of the Salt Lake valley. He spent a brief period in Hawaii as a baby with his mother as well as some time in Boise, Idaho.
David Stevenson was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on Halloween.
Young David Lawrence Stevenson's life was forever changed when his friend Matches convinced him to try poetry, because poetry doesn't have to rhyme.
David Stevenson's favorite thing about their job is discovering and assimilating all of the theories and ideas and possible direction to go with the wonderful changing online world.
David Stevenson works at Overstock.com as a Social Media Project Leader, helping build out the websites community as well as interacting with other communities and helping to assess other Web 2.0-style efforts.
David is prefers to be Davey, which was given to him as a nickname the first day his Grandma Jackie met him and said he was too young to be a David. Also, it annoyed Davey's dad.
In college, Davey picked up the name Rowsdower after seeing the Mystery Science Theater rendition of The Final Sacrifice. Though he bares little resemblance to the overweight Canadian who was the original Rowsdower, he's claimed the name well enough that many people have actually thought it to be his given name.
The color of David Stevenson's hair is usually red these days, though he began life with white blond hair that eventually settled into a dull brown in middle school before he began dying it in college.
David Stevenson is a perpetual dreamer.
David Stevenson's eyes are an interesting mixture of gold and green with flecks of brown.
David Stevenson is most known for being the guy with the ears in Cedar City.
David Stevenson is set apart from the crowd by an unusual sense of style, a general disregard of popular opinion and tendency to question even people of authority.
David Lawrence Stevenson is at their best working nights with a tight deadline.
The most insightful thing anyone has ever said about Davey is when a Sociology professor pointed him out as the one exception in the room to his ability to explain anyone as a result of their society.
David Stevenson went to high-school at Bingham High. He started into theater his first year and worked on props crews for both major productions, winning him a "Props Master of the Year" award in the theater departments closing ceremonies. His first role at Bingham was a dead body in a senior showcase one act play.
As a junior he appeared as Eugene Fodor in Crazy for You and as one of the guards in Antigone, as well as appearing in the Shakespeare ensemble piece as Paris.
His senior year, Davey was even more focused on theater and participated in pretty much every theater related project that year. In the production of Caucasion Chalk Circle he appeared as the Fat Prince, including having a casting made of his head that could be paraded around on stage after the character was killed off. He also played flute music and filled several other roles in the ensemble-style cast. He played a minor role as one of the Sharks in West Side Story. One of his more favorite roles was in the competition one act where he was able to play the older angrier professor judging God's final project, the Earth. He concluded the year by directing a cut down version of Sartre's play No Exit. In what spare time he had, he also managed to join the school's Academic Decathalon team, winning several medals at both region and state competitions.
David Stevenson's favorite teacher was Darrell Spencer, who is an amazing writing professor, though he has had many other wonderful teachers that probably deserve credit too.
David Stevenson's mother is Audrey Stevenson, who works in public health and often speaks at conferences for health officials nation wide.
David Stevenson's ancestors were from the British Isles on one side and Holland on the other.
David Stevenson's pets are Max, Eddie and Aya. Three cats, all rescues and all living with his parents, much to the dismay of those parents.
David Stevenson's father is also David Stevenson, though typically is called Dave.
David Stevenson's siblings are Lindsay and Brandon.
The URL to David Stevenson's personal website is
http://starsandmuses.wordpress.comDavid Stevenson attended Bingham High School and then Southern Utah University.
David Stevenson has made a serious study of the evolution of the image of the hero in America, Angels, poetry, writing, philosophy, various pieces of lore from around the world and is always finding new things to research.
David Stevenson has received various theater awards, the 'Most Invisible Pooka' award from the SUU Journal, a pile of medals from Academic Decathlon, 2nd place in the Student Faculty scholarship day at SUU and a few other miscellaneous odd mentions.
David Stevenson's dream job is to own and run a small press.
Before dying, David Stevenson wants to see something he has written for sale in a bookstore.
When the paparazzi mob David Lawrence Stevenson, it will be for having written something that some church, if not several churches, finds massively offensive.
David Stevenson has a scar on his forehead from a lead pipe swung by a friend while goofing off in third grade. Davey holds a grudge against the pipe to this day.
David Stevenson nearly died when being electrocuted in the rafters of the auditorium in high school, when a guy in a truck ran a light one night in Cedar, and probably a few other times doing things that were bad ideas.
David Stevenson has visited Washington D.C., the Bahamas, Alaska and most of the Western United States.
David Lawrence Stevenson's closest friends are Marty, Junpei, Hastings, The Wendy and Aden.