R. Nemo Hill is the author, in collaboration with painter Jeanne Hedstrom, of an illustrated novel organized according to the processes of medieval alchemy, Pilgrim's Feather (Quantuck Lane Press, 2002), a narrative poem based upon a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, The Strange Music of Erich Zann (Hippocampus Press, 2004), and a chapbook, Prolegomena to an Essay on Satire (Modern Metrics, 2006). Editor of EXOT Books, he lives in New York city, but has for over twenty years traveled frequently to Southeast Asia.