Learning to Crawl (2020) and Shorter of Breath (2017) are novels by Kenneth (Ken) Eckert, from Canada, now living in Korea. As an English professor most of his writing is on medieval and (post)modern literature, with a recently published book, Middle English Romances in Translation (Sidestone), and Writing Academic Papers in English: For Korean Writers. He is an alumnus of Memorial University in Newfoundland and University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he studied Chaucer alongside creative writing students such as Alissa Nutting (Tampa) and Juan Martinez (Best Worst American).