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 many, many followers on social media platforms. As a writer of fiction, Dahlia has penned two previous works: Nina (Scapegoat Press, 2006), the story of a teenage sociopath told with a mixture of humor, sex, minimalism, and more sex; and Armed to the Teeth with Lipstick (Greedy Media, 1998), 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 throughout the world; produced twenty-three LPs with an eclectic mix of artists for labels like Sympathy for the Record Industry, Epitaph, Sub/Pop, Fat Wreck Chords, Burger Records, 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 cohosted 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.