Bruce ToienBruce Toien lives with his wife in Sherwood, Oregon. Bruce recently published The Yamhill Barber, a well-received mystery/humor novel set in a small town in Oregon's wine country. He has written stories and poetry since adolescence and has published wo prior pieces: an analysis of T.S. Eliot's poetry in the DeKalb Literary Journal in the late 1970s and, more recently, a novel, The Yamhill Barber, which he illustrated. He has bachelors degrees from the University of California in English Literature and Physics. Like his wife, Gail, Bruce is an avid outdoorsman, enjoying running, cycling and Nordic skiing. In 2004 he joined a Norwegian ski trek across Spitsbergen Island near the North Pole. In the process of learning Norwegian, he wrote two poems in that language, which he later translated into English and those appear in this volume. He is currently working on a new science fiction novel based on his Spitsbergen adventure called Signatures in the Ice. Bruce works in IT, currently at Kaiser Permanente, as a database architect and developer. Read More Read Less