Noh Jeo-yong received a BA in English Literature from Yongnam University and a PhD in English Literature from Oxford University. He served as the President of The T.S. Eliot Society of Korea during 2003-2005 and is a professor in English Literature at Yongnam University. His translations include Derek Walcott¡¯s Omeros (Korean, 1994) and Korean Buddhist Poems (English, 2006).