He is the author of Camellia, The Earth Has Rectangular Memory, An Empty Chair for Ten Years, and Red Eye. He lives in South Korea. Won-Chung Kim is a professor of English Literature in Korea, where he teaches contemporary American poetry, ecological literature, and translation. Kim is the coeditor of East Asian Ecocriticisms: A Critical Reader and has translated ten books of Korean poetry. He lives in South Korea. Christopher Merrill directs the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. He is the author of six collections of poetry, including Necessities and Watch Fire, for which he received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets. He lives in Iowa City, Iowa.