John J. Han is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Missouri Baptist University, where he also chairs the Humanities Division. He is the editor of Wise Blood: A Re-Consideration (2011) and serves as editor of Intégrité: A Faith and Learning Journal and Cantos: A Literary and Arts Journal. His articles have appeared in many journals and essay collections, such as Journal of Transnational American Studies, Literature and Belief, The Moral Philosophy of John Steinbeck, Steinbeck Studies, and The Steinbeck Review. Author of five haiku collections, he has also published poems in periodicals and anthologies worldwide, including Frogpond, Modern Haiku, and World Haiku Review. He earned his MA and his PhD from Kansas State University and the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, respectively. C. Clark Triplett is Vice President for Graduate Studies and Academic Program Review and Professor of Psychology/Sociology at Missouri Baptist University. He earned an AA from Hannibal-LaGrange College, a BA from Southwest Baptist University, an MDiv. from Covenant Theological Seminary, an MSEd from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, and a PhD from Saint Louis University. He also studied at Concordia Seminary, the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland, and the Harvard Institutes. A licensed counselor, he has published academic articles and book reviews in Intégrité: A Faith and Learning Journal.