Dr. Wajuppa Tossa, an Associate Professor at the Western Languages and Linguistics Department, Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty, Mahasarakham University, has been teaching English and American Literature since 1978. She received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Srinakharinwirot University, Prasanmitr, Bangkok in 1973 and 1977 respectively. She received her Ph.D. in English with distinction from Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, USA, in 1986. Thanks to numerous grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, Fulbright, the Association for Asian Studies, the Ford Foundation, the John F. Kennedy Foundation of Thailand, and the James W. H. Thompson Foundation, she was able to collect and translate local folk epics and stories into English, to give lectures, and to teach Thai and Folk Literature at various universities overseas. She has been a featured storyteller at several festivals, including the Australian National Storytelling Festival, the Northwest Bookfest in Seattle, the StoryFest International, and the Congress of Storytellers in Singapore and Malaysia. Her major publications include Phadaeng Nang Ai: a Translation of a Thai/lsan Folk Epic into English Verse (1990) and Phya Khankhaak, the Toad King: a Translation of an Isan Fertility Myth into English Verse (1996). She is currently finishing up two translation projects, Kamphra Phinoi, the Orphan and the Little Ghost and Kaew Na Ma, Horse-Faced Woman Warrior.