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Dae-Tong Huh

The editor of Variety Crossing, Dae-Tong Huh, was born in Korea. He's arrival to Canada in 1969 was the beginning of his passion as a poet, translator and publisher. Here is the president of the Korean Canadian Literary Forum-21, Toronto, Member of the Korean PEN Centre, Canadian Ethnic Journalists` & Writers` Club and the Writers` Union of Canada. He is the author of over thirty poems, stories and essays published in various anthologies, magazines and newspapers. His first book of selected poetry, More Waves, was published in 2004. He was appointed President of the Korean District PEN in Canada by the International Korean PEN Centre in 2006. His was invited to contribute and attend the International PEN Congress in 2005, Slovenia. He read from his paper on Multiculturalism, which was published by the International PEN Congress that same year. He recieved a Translation Grant from the Daeson Literature Foundation in Korea for Ripples set to release late 2007. He recently completed the Korean translation of Sang Kim's play, A Dream Called Laundry which will be published as a series by MINERVA magazine in 2007.