Walter K. Lew has written or edited ten books and special journal issues, including: TREADWINDS: Poems and Intermedia Texts; CRAZY MELON and CHINESE APPLE: The Poems of Frances Chung; PACK OBSERVING Art Basel >< Miami Beach; MUAE 1; PREMONITIONS: An Anthology of Asian North American Poetry; and Excerpts from: ∆IKTH 딕테/딕티 DIKTE for DICTEE. The founding editor of Kaya Press (now based at USC), his translations and scholarship on Asian American and Korean literature have been widely anthologized. Formerly a documentary producer, Lew has also written scripts for a HBO anime series and staged multimedia works at the Jeonju International FF, Millennium Film Workshop, and Walker Art Center. He has been awarded grants and prizes from the NEA, NY State Council on the Arts, Asian American Writers Workshop, Republic of Korea Agency for the Promotion of Arts & Literature, and Literature Translation Institute of Korea, among others. He is currently creating a series of short films based on 100 cartridges of Super 8 film shot and smuggled out of South Korea in 1987 when it was under military rule.