Scarf

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.

Spencer Lee-Lenfield translates from Korean to English. Lee-Lenfield’s prior work has appeared in journals including New England Review, Colorado Review, Guernica, The Dial, and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s The Margins.