Kim Min Jeong is the author of Flying Porcupine Lady, For the First Time, and That Woman Feeling, as well as the prose collection Anyways,. She is the recipient of the Park In Hwan Literary Award and Contemporary Poetry Award and is the poetry editor for Korea’s largest publishing house, Munhak Dongne.
Soeun Seo is a poet and translator from South Korea. Her translations have appeared in such publications as Hayden’s Ferry Review, Circumference, and Puerto del Sol. She is currently a Michener fellow and is the co-translator of Hysteria by Kim Yideum.
Jake Levine is an American translator, poet, and scholar. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at Keimyung University and a lecturer at the Literature Translation Institute of Korea. He is the translator of Butterfly Sleep and Whale and Vapor by Kim Kyung Ju, the latter also published by Black Ocean, where he is the editor of the Moon Country series for Korean translation.
Soeun Seo (she/they) is a poet and translator from South Korea and a recent graduate of the Michener Center for Writers. Their poems and translations have appeared in such venues as Hayden’s Ferry Review, Korean Literature Now, Guernica, and Black Warrior Review, among others. They cotranslated Hysteria by Kim Yideum, which won the Lucien Stryk Award and the National Translation Award. Their latest translation, Beautiful and Useless by Kim Min Jeong, cotranslated with Jake Levine, was also published by Black Ocean.
Jake Levine is a poet, translator, and scholar. He has authored, translated, or cotranslated over a dozen books, including Kim Yideum’s Hysteria (Action Books 2019), which received the National Translation Award and Lucien Stryk Prize. His first full-length collection of poems is The Imagined Country, forthcoming from Tolsun Books in 2023. He teaches creative writing at Keimyung University and edits the Korean poetry series Moon Country for Black Ocean.
