Draft:Ásdís Óladóttir

Ásdís Óladóttir was born in 1967 in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland and grew up in Kópavogur. She has a matriculation exam from Menntaskóli Kópavogs since 1987. In 1989 she enrolled in the Technical School of Hafnarfjörður, Iðnskólinn í Hafnarfirði, studying industrial design, which she graduated from three years later. Ásdís studied design at the Gerrit Rietweld Academie in Amsterdam in 1994. Ásdís's first book of poetry, "Light of night" was published by Andblær in 1995. Today she has eight published books of poetry along with the collection of poetry, "Sunday drive", which was published by Bjartur og Veröldin in 2015.

Ásdís has been writing poetry since the age of eighteen in addition to working in various places, such as in a fish factory, an electricity store, furniture and product designing, as a museum guard, house cleaning, curator at Gallerí 78, on the exhibition committee for an art gallery, Glerhúsið, in a committee of editors for Andblær, member of the judging committee of the poetry competition, Ljóðstafur Jóns úr Vör and for the poetry competition of the Hinsegin dagar (Queer days).

Ásdís lives in Reykjavík, Siglufjörður and Brooklyn, New York.