Hafstad, Vala

Born in Iceland, Vala Hafstad majored in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and holds a master's degree in English from the University of Washington. She has spent most of her adult life in the United States, mainly in Minnesota. News Muse is Hafstad's first book, but many of her poems have been published on Poetry24, the news-related poetry website, as well as in literary journals in Iceland and Canada. She is a columnist for Iceland Review Online.