DAG T. STRAUMSVÅG was born in 1964 and raised along the rugged, sparsely populated coastline of northwestern Norway. He has worked at various times as farm hand, sawmill worker, librarian, and at a local rock station in Trondheim, where he has lived since 1964. The author of three books of poetry, most recently A Bumpy Ride to the Slaughterhouse and The Lure-Maker from Posio, both published by Red Dragonfly Press, he is a respected translator of contemporary American poetry and currently lives in Trondheim.