Shin Hae-uk has been publishing since 1998, including the poetry collections Precise Arrangement (, 2005), Biologicity (儅僭撩, 2009), syzygy (Moonji, 2014), and Caeciliendless (鼠褶艙錳, 2019); the essay collections Lives of the Unadults (綠撩喇 翮瞪, 2012) and Book for Just One (1檣辨 疇, 2015); the novel The Oneiroelectrical Shop (, 2020); and Looking Out the Window (璽夤擊 獄棻, 2021), a hybrid work of essay and fiction. She won Korea’s Author’s Choice Emerging Poet Award in 2010 and received the Kim Hyun Literary Prize in 2022. Shin holds a doctorate in Korean literature from Korea University and currently teaches creative writing at Dongduk Women’s University in Seoul. Biologicity, from which the poems in this issue are drawn, will appear in English translation from Black Ocean in late 2024.
Poetry
Fall 2024
Guest
The Kenyon Review · “Guest” by Shin Hae-uk translated and read by Spencer Lee-Lenfield Monday’s already on its way. By Tuesday, my room will lose its human smell,and though I’m […]
Poetry
Fall 2024
Scarf
The Kenyon Review · “Scarf” by Shin Hae-uk translated and read by Spencer Lee-Lenfield It smelled awful in my head.My stuffed nose made fresh air scarce, and I couldn’t tell […]
Poetry
Fall 2024
End of the Earth
The Kenyon Review · “End of the Earth” by Shin Hae-uk translated and read by Spencer Lee-Lenfield Memory, dry, like a berry: I heard oneplop plop out of me, leaving […]
Poetry
Fall 2024
On the Dot
The Kenyon Review · “On the Dot” by Shin Hae-uk translated and read by Spencer Lee-Lenfield I’ve become a center of gravity. Inhaling, I feel my flesh stick to my […]