Arne Rautenberg was born in 1967 in Kiel, North Germany, where he still lives, working as a freelance writer and artist. In 2002 his first novel, Der Sperrmüllkönig (The Refuse King), was published by Hoffman & Campe. He contributed poems, translations and an Afterword to the bilingual collection of football haiku The Season Sweetens / Die Saison Versüssend (The Caseroom Press, 2006). His most recent book is vermeeren (Darling Publications, 2006), a collection of 100 collages and 100 poems.