Robert Bringhurst is a poet, typographer, translator, book designer, and linguist, well known for his award-winning translations of the Haida storytellers Skaay and Ghandl, and for his translations of the early Greek philosopher-poet Parmenides. His manual The Elements of Typographic Style has itself been translated into ten languages and is now one of the world’s most influential texts on typographic design. Bringhurst lives on Quadra Island, off the British Columbia coast.