He graduated from Reed College, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.He teaches at University of Wyoming. He lives in Buffalo, Wyoming, with his wife, the potter Margo Brown.

His work appears in The Sun Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Missouri Review,

He is a founder and current board member of Worlds of Music.Romtvedt plays button accordion with the band, The Fireants. They have recorded three CDs, Bury my Clothes, Ants on Ice and It's Hot. The band plays Latin and Cajun/Zydeco music as well as original music that David Romtvedt has written.

• Letters from Mexico (1988). Missoula, MT: Kutenai Press. ISBN: (?). Co-author Pat Weyer.
• Moon: Poems (1984). St. Paul, MN: Bieler Press. ISBN: 0931460166. Illustrated by R W Scholes.

Anthologies

Essays

• "Red Politics And Blue In Wyoming", The Sun Magazine, June 2006

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