Minsoo Kang

Due to his father’s profession as a diplomat for the South Korean government, Minsoo Kang has lived in Austria, New Zealand, Iran, Brunei, Germany, and a number of other countries. He served in the South Korean army and earned his Ph.D. in European history at UCLA. He is currently a professor of history at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. He is the author of the short story collection 'Of Tales and Enigmas,' and the history books 'Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination and Invincible' and 'Righteous Outlaw: The Korean Hero Hong Gildong in Literature, History, and Culture,' and he is the translator of the Penguin classics edition of the Korean novel 'The Story of Hong Gildong.' His short fiction has appeared in F & SF, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Azalea, Best of Korea, and six anthologies. He lives in St. Louis, Missouri.