Cheon Heerahn Author

Cheon Heerahn was born in Gyeonggido Seongnam, Korea in 1984. She was named 2015 Emerging Writer of the Year by the journal Contemporay Literature (Hyeondae Munhak) for her story ‘Pale Garden of No Shadows’. In 2017 Cheon won the 8th Munhakdongne Young Writer's Prize. The Origin of Zero/Shadow is her first collection. Emily Yae Won is the translator of Cheon Heerahn's 'Five Preludes & A Fugue', Kim Soom's 'Divorce', and Hwang Jungeun's I'll Go On. Recent translations into Korean include Jessica Au's Cold Enough for Snow and Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts.