Kim, Yoon Sik: - Born in South Korea, Yoon Sik Kim had served as an officer in the Republic of Korea Air Force for five years before he came to America. He earned his Master's from the University of Oklahoma and his Ph. D. from Oklahoma State University, specializing in Ezra Pound and Modern Poetry. Having taught for more than 30 years at the college level, he now teaches part-time while sharpening the blade of his word- smithing. Married to an Okie, he homesteads in the outback of Oklahoma, where he lives with his wife, children, horses, and honeybees on a farm.