Author Bio: Eric Dregni

Born in the shadow of the World's Largest Six-Pack in La Crosse,
Wisconsin, Eric Dregni has scoured the upper Midwest for the best
bizarre sites to prove that it's not just the water that makes us
Midwesterners so uniquely inspired (some would say disturbed).
Ever since his grandfather loaded him into his robin's egg blue
Oldsmobile to be spooked by the Talking Paul Bunyan in Brainerd,
Dregni has been obsessed with these odd landmarks and "World's
Largest" objects protruding with pride high above the cornfields
to mark that "We were here!"

Dregni lived in Italy for five years where he worked as a travel
journalist for a weekly paper and compiled his essays into a book
in Italian, Grazie a Dio non Sono Bolognese. While in Italy, he
discovered the origins of and obsessions with Vespas, Lambrettas,
and other motorscooters and wrote and shot photos for five books
on these odd, but stylish, little two-stroke machines.

As the recipient of a 2004 Fulbright Fellowship in Creative Writing,
Dregni lived in Trondheim, Norway where he survived a dinner of
rakfisk (fermented fish) thanks to 80-proof aquavit, took the
"meat bus" to Sweden for cheap salami with a busload of knitting
pensioners, and discovered his great-grandfather's house in the
Lusterfjord only to find out it had been crushed by a boulder then
swept away by a river.