Hanne Bramness is a Norwegian poet, editor, translator, and novelist. Born in 1959, she published her first Norwegian collection Korrespondanse in 1983 and has followed this with seven other collections, two of them - Kysset and Trollmane - for children. In 2007 Shearsman published a selection of her poems in English, Salt on the eye (translated by Frances Presley and the author) and in 2008 her selected poems appeared in Norwegian, Det star ulver i din drom (Wolves are standing in your dream). In 2003 she published the novel Lynettes reise (Lynette's journey; a novel partically based on the Welsh-Argentinian poet Lynette Roberts' early life.) Shearsman published a selected poems, salt on the eye, in 2007.