BOOKS | POEMS | PROSE | TRANSLATIONS

BOOKS

Find Me as the Creature I Am: Poems (Knopf, 2024)

A Cruelty Special to Our Species: Poems (Ecco | HarperCollins, 2018)

  • Winner of the 2019 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award
  • Finalist for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Korean Translation of A Cruelty Special to Our Species: 우리 종족의 특별한 잔인함 (Yolimwon, 2020)

  • Includes the English original text
  • Translated by Han Yujoo

Ordinary Misfortunes: Poems (Tupelo Press, 2017)

  • Winner of the 2017 Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize

Against Healing: Nine Korean Poets (Tilted Axis Press 2019)

  • Translating Feminisms Series
  • Out of Print – Available Digitally
POEMS

2023

“Evolution,” forthcoming in The New Republic

“Affection,” forthcoming in Action, Spectacle

“Love and Death Speaking at Once,” The Believer

2022

“Gala,” The Rumpus.

“Ch’ŏŭmŭro sarangan saram,” [처음으로 사랑한 사람; One I Loved First] Toybox

“Kyŏnggyein,” [경계인; Person of the Margins] Toybox

2021

“The Greenland Shark,” Chicago Reader

“In All the Futures,Sewanee Review

The Blades,” The Los Angeles Review of Books

Related Matters,The New Yorker

2020

Body Of,” Virginia Quarterly Review

“Field,” Pleiades

What Carries Us,“ POETRY

Elsewhere,“ New England Review

2019

Decency,” “Litany for the Green,” The Paris Review

2018

Autopsy,” The New York Times Magazine

“Bell Theory” and “The Transformation” translated into Japanese, by Yamaguchi Isao, 『て、わたし』

2017

American Dream,“ “Say Grace,” POETRY

“On the Day of the Gyeongju Earthquake, September 12, 2016,” Apogee

An Ordinary Misfortune,” Berkeley Poetry Review

Time, in Whales,” The New Yorker

The Transformation,” PEN Poetry Series

Easily written poem,” Zócalo Public Square

Bell Theory,” POETRY

2016

An Ordinary Misfortune” [She offered him…], “An Ordinary Misfortune” [What is pressing…] Ploughshares (winner of the 2015 Emerging Writer’s Contest)

“An Ordinary Misfortune” [What is pressing…], “An Ordinary Misfortune” [Mine is the jam-packed train…], (originally published in Ploughshares and The Offing, respectively) Political Punch Anthology

“Fear,” Southern Humanities Review

“To the Winter Apricot Blossom,” “Foreigner,” “Notes,” OmniVerse

“Royal Azalea,” “Sometimes when I’m talking on this street,” Up the Staircase Quarterly

Today,” Reservoir (Re-titled to “Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today“)

An Ordinary Misfortune,” “Man in Korean Costume,” HOUND

Obeli,” “Don’t Touch Me,” sections from “Testimonies” (“Hwang Keum-ju,” “Kim Soon-duk,” “Kim Yoon-shim,” and “Pak Kyung-soon”), “Hair,” The Volta

2015

Comfort,” “An Ordinary Misfortune” [There was a man…], The Journal

An Ordinary Misfortune” [The trouble with trees…], “An Ordinary Misfortune” [Hunting ground…], “An Ordinary Misfortune” [News reports…] Pinwheel

Dream Devil,” The Collagist

3 sections from “Testimonies” (“Jin Kyung-paeng,” “Kang Duk-kyung,” and “Kim Sang-hi”)  Prelude

“Fetish,” Day One (Issue 2.38)

News,” Best of the Net 2014 (originally published and nominated by Tinderbox Poetry Journal)

An Ordinary Misfortune” [Mine is the jam-packed train…], “An Ordinary Misfortune” [Okamoto condoms…], The Offing

Separation,” “The Colonized,” “To the Winter Apricot Blossom,” The Margins

“It’s Dark In Here,” “My Grandmother Reminisces With Peaches,” “Your Poem About Another Woman,” Sugared Water 

“Land of Lost Syllables,” “Southbound Train,” TAYO Literary Magazine

2014

Hello Miss Pretty Bitch,” Rattle (Poets Respond)

“The First Woman to Caress My Naked Body,” The Home School

“A Woman Like,” Iris N. Spencer Awards – Early Years Anthology

“Kiss Me,” Punchnel’s

Let Us Part Like This,“ “News,” “Soren,” Tinderbox Poetry Journal

2013

“Grandfather,” APIARY

2011

“The way you look at me,” Peregrine

“Trip,” The Notebook – Creative Writing Magazine at King’s College London

2010

“A Woman Like,” on Iris N. Spencer Poetry Contest at West Chester University website

PROSE

2021

“Unnie,” The Southern Review

Tangsin ŭl hyangae ssŭnŭn si,“ [당신을 향해 쓰는 시; Poetry Written Toward You] Epiic (in Korean)

Stanzas: Monica Sok,” The Sewanee Review

Interview with Keum Suk Gendry-Kim: Imagining the Collective Memory of History,” Korean Literature Now

I Became Asian When I Left Asia,” The Cut

2019

The Poetic Consequences of K-Pop,“ The Paris Review

2018

Writers Recommend, Poets & Writers

2016

“Anamnesis,” Cosmonauts Avenue (shortlisted for the 2015 SLS Montreal Flash Fiction contest)

2015

An Expelled Tongue: Translating Kim Hyesoon” (interview with Don Mee Choi), The Margins 

Review of Odi Gonzales’s Birds on the Kiswar Tree (Trans. by Lynn Levin), Per Contra

2014

Review (w/ W. M. Lobko) of Cathy Linh Che’s Split, Late Night Conversation – Late Night Library

KTEP’s Words on a Wire (guest, poetic license segment)

Late Night New York – Late Night Library

TRANSLATIONS (From Korean to English, unless noted)

2022

Ten Poems by Kim Seung-hee, Korean Literature Now

From the Priestess of the Sun to the Poet of the Earth,” by Lee Kyungsoo, Korean Literature Now

“Scorched” by Otobong Nkanga, Busan Biennale (from English to Korean)

2021

“My Day, to be Wiped Out by the Mighty Sun Eraser,” by Kim Hyesoon, in co-translation with David Krolikoski, Chicago Review

2019 

“The Illusion of the Mother and the Virgin,“ by Kim Hyesoon, Puerto del Sol

2018

“Me, Natasha, the White Donkey,” “Hometown,” and “From the North” by Baek Seok, Bat City Review

2017

Father Who Became a Snake,” “Venus Pudica” by Park Yeon Joon, Korean Literature Now

2016

Guest Editorial – Modern and Contemporary Korean Women Poets, The Missing Slate

“To the Poet” by Yi Sanghwa; 2 sijo poems [Blue stream…], [ My heart…] by Hwang Jini, Menage

Crow’s-eye view: Poem number eleven” by Yi Sang, POETRY

This sort of poem,” “Mirror,” “Morning,” “Crow’s-eye view: Poem number thirteen,” by Yi Sang, The Literary Review

2015

11 poems by Chŏng Chiyong & translator’s note, Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture

2014

5 poems by Han Yong-un, Columbia Journal Online