Ross Klatte was born in Minneapolis and raised on a Minnesota family farm.  After service in the U.S. Navy and obtaining a degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota, he worked as a reporter and editor in Chicago and Detroit before emigrating with his wife to Canada in 1971. He is the author of Leaving the Farm (Oolichan Books, 2007), a memoir, and a novel about back-to-the-land hippies in British Columbia at the end of the 1960s for which he is seeking a publisher.Most recently he has self-published a collection of stories, How Long Have I Been Here (FriesenPress, 2021).