David Ohle is an American writer, novelist, and a lecturer at the University of Kansas, Lawrence After receiving his M.A from KU, he taught at the University of Texas at Austin from 1975 to 1984 In 2002 he began teaching fiction writing and screenwriting as a part time lecturer at the University of Kansas His short fiction has appeared in Esquire, the Transatlantic Review, Paris Review, and Harper s, among other magazines.While it remained out of print for over thirty years, his first novel Motorman initially published in 1972 gathered a quiet cult following, was circulated through photocopies, and went on to become an influence to a generation of American writers such as Shelley Jackson and Ben Marcus.His subsequent novels The Age of Sinatra 2004 , The Pisstown Chaos 2008 and The Old Reactor 2013 take place in the same dystopian setting as Motorman Ohle s fiction is often described as weird, surreal and experimental His own influences include Leonora Carrington, Philip K Dick, Flann O Brien, and Raymond Roussel.