Steven Schroeder received his Ph.D. in Ethics and Society from the University of Chicago in 1982. He teaches at the University of Chicago in Asian Classics and the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in After Hours, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Concho River Review, the Christian Science Monitor, the Cresset, Druskininkai Poetic Fall 2005, Georgetown Review, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Karamu, Macao Closer, Mid-America Poetry Review, Poetry East, Poetry Macao, Rhino, Sichuan Literature, Texas Review, TriQuarterly and other literary journals. He has published two chapbooks, Theory of Cats and Revolutionary Patience, and five full-length collections, Fallen Prose, The Imperfection of the Eye, Six Stops South, A Dim Sum of the Day Before, and (with Debby Sou Vai Keng) A Guest Giving Way Like Ice Melting: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Laozi.

website: stevenschroeder.org