Terry Hermsen, co-translator of this volume, was born in 1950 in Chicago, Illinois. He has published two chapbooks of poetry, 36 Spokes: The Bicycle Poems and Child Aloft in Ohio Theatre (both with Bottom Dog Press in Huron, Ohio). His first full-length collection, The River's Daughter (also published with Bottom Dog) was co-recipient of the Ohio Poet of the Year Award in 2009. He teaches English and Creative Writing at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio.
