Mark Gustafson, born and raised in Chicago, has been a classics professor focusing on historiography, religions, late antiquity, and ancient tattoos. He first encountered Robert Bly's poetry a half-century ago, and spent the next twenty years attending readings and scouring used book stores for Bly's more obscure publications. Eventually, Gustafson made Bly's acquaintance, and was given open access to his collected papers.
In 2012, Red Dragonfly Press published his The Odin House Harvest: An Analytical Bibliography of the Publications of Robert Bly's Fifties, Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, Nineties, and Thousands Press. Essays in Antioch Review, Great River Review, Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Rain Taxi Review of Books, and Robert Bly in This World (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) grew out of the research for these books.
