Dustin Hellberg is an assistant professor of literature and teaches creative writing in the Department of English Language and Literature, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. He has an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and a PhD from EGS, Switzerland. He has a forthcoming poetry book, A Perfect Sphere on a Frictionless Plane (Delere). He is also working on a new novel and collection of short stories, a poetry chapbook & a translation of Cormac McCarthy's early work into Korean. He has many articles out or forthcoming on evolutionary aesthetics and literary theory. He divides his time between Seoul and Iowa City.