Head Collector

Song Seung Eon, born in 1986 in Wonju, Gangwon Province, studied creative writing at Chung-Ang University and debuted as a poet in 2011 in the prestigious South Korean literary monthly Hyundae Munhak (Contemporary Literature). Song is the author of four collections of poetry and prose, including Occupational Front (Spring Days Books, 2022), Love and Education (Minumsa, 2019), and Iron and Oak (Moonji Books, 2015), and won the Park In-hwan Literary Award in 2016. He is a member of the poetry collective jaknan.

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.