Robert Perchan was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up there doing pretty much what was expected of him. After grad school he taught introductory composition and literature courses aboard three different mostly seaworthy vessels for the U.S. Navy's Program for Afloat College Education (PACE) before moving on to universities in South Chorea Korea. His poetry collection Fluid in Darkness, Frozen in Light won the 1999 Pearl Poetry Prize and the final judge, after generously praising the poems therein, was perspicacious enough to offer this prophetic observation about the author on the back cover: "I suspect he will not be invited to the White House for Poetry Month celebrations . . ." That was like about five Presidents ago, and thankfully appears to be holding true. Beware his prose fiction in Tropic of Scorpio as well. The geezer appears not to have lost a step there either. Also of note: Bob's Last Notes from a Split Peninsula: Poems and Prose Poems was brought out by UnCollected Press in 2021. In any case, Bob continues to eat and drink and write in Busan, ROK, under the bemused gaze of his wife, Mi-kyung Lee, who has done the real work over the past several years translating novels by Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell and Sinclair Lewis.