Adam Webb is a poet, teacher, and an aspiring translator living in Hamamatsu, Japan at the time of this book's publication. Born and raised in Northwest Indiana, Adam now spends most of his time experiencing exotic cultures, discovering interesting literary works, and attempting to understand the human condition. In addition to the literary brilliance of Jorge Luis Borges, he loves the poetry of James Wright, Frederico Garcia Lorca, and Pablo Neruda as well as the fiction of Ernest Hemingway, Paulo Coelho, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez also the non-fiction of Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, and Friedrich Nietzsche.