Born in Sangju, South Korea in 1952, LEE SEONG-BOK is the author of eight poetry collections, as well as works of literary criticism and essays on photography. He made his English-language debut with Indeterminate Inflorescence (Sublunary Editions, 2023), a volume of 470 aphorisms collected by his students at Keimyung University, in Daegu, where he has taught creative writing and French literature for more than four decades.

ANTON HUR is the translator of Lee Seong-bok's Indeterminate Inflorescence. His debut novel, Toward Eternity, was published by HarperVia in 2024. In 2022 he was double-longlisted and shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, and in 2023 his translation of Bora Chung's Cursed Bunny was a finalist for a National Book Award. He lives in Seoul, South Korea.