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By Jennifer Morrison / August 2025
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About The Author
E. J. Koh
E. J. Koh is the author of the memoir The Magical Language of Others, which won the Washington State Book Award, Pacific Northwest Book Award, Association for Asian American Studies Book Award, and was longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award. Koh is the author of the poetry collection A Lesser Love, a Pleiades Editors Prize for Poetry Winner. She is a translator of Yi Won’s poetry collection The World’s Lightest Motorcycle, which won the Literature Translation Institute of Korea’s Translation Grand Prize. Her work has appeared in AGNI, The Atlantic, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetry, Slate, Teen Vogue, World Literature Today, and elsewhere. Koh earned her MFA at Columbia University in New York for Creative Writing and Literary Translation and her PhD at the University of Washington in English Language and Literature studying Korean American literature, history, and film. Koh has received National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, and American Literary Translators Association fellowships. Her debut novel The Liberators, which won The New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Pacific Northwest Book Award, is out now. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
Bio and Photo from: ejkoh.com
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