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Shin Hae-uk Author

Shin Hae-uk is the author of three poetry books in Korean in addition to essay collections and a novel. She won Korea’s Author’s Choice Emerging Poet Award in 2010 and received the Kim Hyun Literary Prize in 2022. She holds a doctorate in Korean literature from Korea University and currently teaches creative writing at Dongduk Women’s University in Seoul. 

Spencer Lee-Lenfield’s translations from Korean to English have appeared in publications including Guernica, New England Review, Colorado Review, Asymptote, and The Dial. Lee-Lenfield is currently a Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature at Yale University as well as an assistant editor at The Yale Review. Lee-Lenfield’s writing has appeared in PMLA, Modern Language Quarterly, Poetics Today, The New York Review of Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Harvard Magazine, and Slate<