Oliver Bach

Oliver Bach was born in 1994, in Santa Cruz, California. At the age of 11 his elementary school teacher gave his class an assignment: Write a 2,000 word story. He wrote 20,000 words. It was his first experience with storytelling and when he graduated elementary school a year later, he was asked if he wanted to move on to middle school in their state of Virginia or quit school entirely and move to Orcas Island, Washington.

By then he couldn't get away from his desire to write and Orcas Island was the home of his grandfather, the best selling author Richard Bach. He wanted to know more about that world and so his family moved to Orcas Island to give him that opportunity.

6 years on, he had fruitlessly wrote over 200 short stories, each under 10,000 words. Unable to recapture the imagination that he first felt in elementary school, Oliver moved out of his parent's home. He made an agreement with his family: They would support him financially and he would deliver a novel in one year.

In a small apartment in Eastsound, the largest town on Orcas Island, he wrote his first novel, Who Walks With Death, in 12 months.