Dustin Hellberg is an assistant professor of literature and creative writing. He has an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a PhD from EGS, Switzerland and a second PhD from the University of Lincoln, England. He is the author of three previous books, World Enough, Squirrel Haus & A Perfect Sphere on a Frictionless Plane. He has also authored many scholarly articles on the philosophy of science, evolutionary aesthetics, semiotics, neuroscience and literature. He divides his time between Iowa, the Bahamas and South Korea.