David Romtvedt’s most recent book is No Way: An American Tao Te Ching (LSU, 2021), a finalist for the High Plains Book Award. His next book, Still on Earth, is forthcoming from LSU. Books of translation include The Tree of Gernika (Center for Basque Studies, 2020)—the collected work of the nineteenth-century Basque troubadour Joxe Mari Iparragirre—and Forest of Ash (Center for Basque Studies, fall 2024)—medieval Basque poems and fragments. With the Fireants, he performs dance music of the Americas and with Ospa, traditional Basque music.