Carl Forsberg was born 1977 and lives in Gothenburg, Sweden. He is a poet and works as publisher and editor of the magazine Aorta ­ the later has been the focal point for a Nordic movement called the Retrogarde since 1997. He has studied literature, art and aesthetics  at the university of Gothenburg and he has also taken a 2-year course in project management which specialized in culture and IT. The website of Aorta and the associated publishing house is www.retrogarde.org