William Mishler grew up on a small farm on the outskirts of Cleveland. In 2002, he retired from the University of Minnesota, where he taught Scandinavian languages, literature, film, and culture. He wrote extensively on these subjects for journals and anthologies. In 1989, he was the co-recipient of the Richard Wilbur Award for the year's best volume of translated poetry. His own poems appeared in The Mudfish, Denver Quarterly, and Chicago Review. He died December 2002.
