Kim Seung Hee (b. 1952), is a celebrated Korean poet. Her career began in 1973. In addition to ten volumes of poetry she has published two volumes of fiction. She is widely admired as a feminist surrealist and has received several major awards. Her volume Pots Bobbing was published in English as Walking on a […]

Choi Jeongrye was born in a city near Seoul. She studied Korean poetry at Korea University and received her PhD from the same school. She participated in the IWP (International Writing Program) as a poet at University of Iowa in 2006 and stayed one year at University of California in Berkeley as a visiting writer […]

Poet Kim Hyesoon first gained critical attention in the late nineties when a wave of influential women’s poetry emerged from South Korea. Her work is full of surreal, poetic images and speaks directly to female experience, the poems resonate with daily life, grounding her sometimes experimental use of language. In her native South Korea she […]