Agus R. Sarjono was born on July 27, 1962 in Bandung, West Java. He graduated from the Department of Literature at IKIP Bandung Indonesia in 1988. He completed his MA at the University of Indonesia in 2002. Outside Indonesia, his poems, short stories, and plays have been published in various journals in Malaysia, Brunei, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Poland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. His poems have been included in more than 20 anthologies. He was an editor of the literary journal Horison. He worked as a lecturer at the Department of Theatre in Bandung and as the Program Director of the Jakarta Arts Council from 2002 to 2006. He was a writer-in-residence at the International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS) in Leiden from February to October 2001, with the permission of the Poets of All Nations Foundation. From December 2002 to March 2003 he was a writer-inresidence of the Heinrich-Böll Foundation in Langenbroich, Germany.