Ross KlatteRoss Klatte was born in Minneapolis and raised on his parents' dairy farm just west of the city. After service in the US Navy as a journalist and obtaining a degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota, he worked as a newspaper reporter andmagazine editor in Chicago and as a copy editor in Detroit before emigrating with his wife to Canada in 1971. He is the author of Leaving the Farm (Oolichan Books, 2007), a memoir, the opening chapter of which in 1990 won first prize in the personal essay division of the CBC Literary Competition. In 2011 he was shortlisted for the Journey Prize for a short story first published in The New Orphic Review, and he wrote the text for Selkirks Spectacular (Keokee Books, 2014), a book of photos and text about the cross-border drive through the Selkirk Mountains in southeastern British Columbia, northeastern Washington, and the Idaho Panhandle. Before moving to Canada, he published fiction in US literary and men's magazines. Read More Read Less