Ola Ståhl is a writer and artist based in Malmö, Sweden from where he runs the publishing presses Publication Studio : Malmö and In Edit Mode Press. With a background and a doctoral degree in Cultural Studies, he was formerly part of the editorial collective of the journal Parallax and one of the main instigators behind the now

defunct "free-school" project C.CRED. His current interests are primarily critical, performative writing strategies and text-based artistic practice. His various writing projects have been performed and exhibited widely and published in numerous artist books, journals, chapbooks, anthologies and collections internationally.

Under the moniker The Outlands, he's performing and writing with fellow artist and writer Neil Chapman, and as a member of the cultural organisation Ystadvägen 13 (aka FASAD) he is organising regular events and storefront "publications" in Malmö.