Blag Dahlia has a funny name and a proud history. Founder of the seminal punk band the Dwarves he has been performing and recording independent music for over three decades, amassing over 20k followers on Instagram and over 80k followers on Facebook. As a writer of fiction, Dahlia has penned two previous works: Nina (2006 Scapegoat Press) the story of a teenage sociopath told with a mixture of humor, sex, minimalism and more sex; and Armed to the Teeth with Lipstick (1998 Greedy Media), an experimental word salad with illustrations by Mad Marc Rude. Both works fetch steep prices on the collector's market as the public clamors for reprints. Highland Falls is Dahlia's third novel and his best. Nina West returns to run roughshod over humanity and the music industry in particular, a world Dahlia knows well. With the Dwarves, Dahlia has played over a thousand shows all over the world; produced twenty-three LPs with an eclectic mix of artists for labels like Sympathy, Epitaph, Sub/Pop, Fat, Burger and BYO; and written or co-written over two hundred published songs. His work has been featured in films like Hostel, Observe and Report and Me, Myself and Irene as well as dozens of television shows and hundreds of skate/surf videos.

Blag co-hosted the podcast Radio Like You Want and the advice show We Got Issues that ran on San Francisco's esteemed KFOG. In 2020, Dahlia adopted the alter ego Ralph Champagne to record a more comedic and novelty based approach to Americana music. Blag Dahlia lives in San Francisco where he still looks good in tight pants.