Jake Levine is an editor at Spork Press, a translator, and a poet. He has published his translation of Kim Kyung Ju's I Am a Season That Does Not Exist in the World. He is currently getting a PhD in comparative literature at Seoul National University.

Chad W. Post is the director of Open Letter Books at the University of Rochester—a publishing house dedicated to promoting international literature in translation. He is also the managing editor of Three Percent, a website on translation and home to the Best Translated Book Awards.

Kim Yi-deum made her literary debut in 2001 in Poesie. She published five poetry books, a novel, and a collection of dissertations. She was awarded the three prizes. She is a lecturer, a radio hostess, and on the editorial staff of magazines.

Bruce Fulton

Kyung Ju Kim