Tung-Hui Hu is an associate professor in the English department at the University of Michigan. Hu is the author of three books of poetry, The Book of Motion (Georgia, 2003), Mine (Copper Canyon, 2007), and Greenhouses, Lighthouses (Copper Canyon, 2013), as well as a study of digital culture, A Prehistory of the Cloud (MIT, 2015). Hu is currently a fellow of the American Academy in Berlin, where he is working on a new book on lethargy.