Originally from London, Philip Rowland is a long-time resident of Tokyo, where he works as a professor of English. He holds degrees from the universities of Glasgow and London, with a doctorate in American poetic modernism, and has published widely on contemporary short-form poetry and poetics. In addition to his three Isobar books – Something Other Than Other, An Open Parenthesis, and the edited anthology NOON: An Anthology of Short Poems – he has published two volumes of short poems and haiku – together still (Hub Editions, 2004) and before music (Red Moon Press, 2012) – and two pamphlets: where rungs were (Noon Press, 2007) and someone one once ran away with (Longhouse, 2009). He is the founding editor of NOON: journal of the short poem, and co-editor, with Jim Kacian and Allan Burns, of the anthology Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (Norton, 2013).