Born in Damyang, South Jeolla Province in 1957, Koh Jaejong made his literary debut in 1984 by publishing his poems in Silcheon Munhak. He is the author of the poetry collections In the Windy Pine Grove Love Stays, The Field of the Dawn, The Lamp of People, Swift Love, The River Wanes with Longing, Then the Bush Warbler Sang, Indigo Blue Sentences, The Power of Flowers, and I Watch the Calm; the collections of critical essays Poetic Germs, and Language of Time; and the prose collections The Power of Rice, The Road of People Reaches the Sky, and Admiration and Sympathy. He has received multiple literary accolades including the Sin Dong-yup Prize for Literature, Poetry & Poetics Prize for Young Poets, Sowol Poetry Award, and Yeong-rang Poetry Award. Koh previously served as Editor-in-Chief of Poetry and People and Literatures, Director of the Writers Association of Gwangju Jeonnam, and Vice-chairman of the Writers Association of Korea.
