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Stine An

Stine An is a poet, literary translator, and performer based in New York City whose translations and poems have appeared in Best Literary Translations 2024, Poem-a-Day, The Southern Review, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University and is the recipient of fellowships and grants from The Poetry Project, PEN/Heim Translation Fund, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her full-length translations include Today’s Morning Vocabulary by Yoo Heekyung (Zephyr Press, 2025), and her debut poetry collection, B-Dragon Suite, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books.

Translation Folio

Winter 2025

Head Collector

By Song Seung Eon, translated by Stine An

The Kenyon Review · “Head Collector” by Song Seung Eon (trans. Stine An) What is your occupation?— I’m a head collector.  A head collector. What kind of work does someone like […]