Kim Kyung Ju is a Seoul-based poet, dramatist, and performance artist. His plays have been produced abroad in several countries, and his poetry and essays are widely anthologized in South Korea. He has written and translated over a dozen books of poetry, essays, and plays, and has been the recipient of many prizes and awards, including the Korean government’s Today’s Young Artist Prize and the Kim Su-yong Contemporary Poetry Award. His first book of poetry, I Am A Season That Does Not Exist In This World, was translated by Jake Levine and published in English by Black Ocean.