Author Biography
Steve Redford was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1957, and grew up in the Atlanta suburbs. He graduated from Furman University in 1980, and went on to earn an M.A. in English from the University of Georgia in 1992, and an M.A. in Japanese studies from the University of Sheffield in 2001. He first worked in Japan in 1988, as an assistant language teacher in secondary schools in Miyazaki Prefecture, and is now a professor of American literature at Shizuoka University.