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.
Jake
Levine is a poet, translator, scholar, and assistant professor of creative
writing at Keimyung University. He translates poetry, K-pop,
museum exhibitions, monographs, and art writing. His cotranslation of Kim
Yideum’s Hysteria won the National Translation Award and Lucien Stryk
Prize. He also has won a handful of awards for his poetry and scholarship,
including a Fulbright Fellowship to Lithuania in 2010. His first full-length
book of poems, The Imagined Country will be out with Tolsun Books in
2023.
