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Translator
Spencer Lee-Lenfield
Spencer Lee-Lenfield translates from Korean and hanmun. His translation of Shin Hae-uk’s Biologicity was nominated for the Lucien Stryk Prize in 2025. He is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard, where he teaches Translation Studies and researches Korean-English translation history.
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Writer
Sümeyra Buran
Sümeyra Buran is an assistant professor of English at South Carolina State University and specializes in Anglo-American fiction and world literature, with a specific focus on science fiction and speculative fiction.
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Writer
Im Seungyu
Im Seungyu is a poet whose work first appeared in the journal Literature and Society in 2011: five poems, including “Keep Smiling.” Her collections include I Had a Kid (Worried I Wasn’t Enough), What Else Other Than That, I Came in Winter and You Were There in Summer, and The Development of Life. She has received the Kim Junseong Literary Award and the Hyundae Munhak Literary Award.
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Writer
Jo Hae Ju
Jo Hae Ju likes to read a person from cover to cover. Her poetry collections include Let’s Talk About Something Else and A Light Gift. She is currently filling out her third collection.
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Writer
Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom / 정울림
Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom/정울림 is a comic book artist, writer, and adoptee rights activist. She has published the graphic novels Palimpsest (Ordfront, 2016), an autobiographical account of her search for her Korean family, and The Excavated Earth (Galago, 2022), which follows Chilean children who were stolen for adoption. She is currently working on her next graphic novel, which focuses on adoptees and mental health.
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Writer
Pierre Bisiou
Pierre Bisiou worked as a publisher and editor for over thirty years. Alongside Choi Kyungran, he has translated about fifteen Korean books, including novels by Han Kang, Cho Nam-Joo, Bora Chung, and Sang Young Park. Since November 2020, he has been posting daily drawings about his activities on Instagram and Facebook, as editeur_croqueur. He lives in France, in La Madeleine de Nonancourt.
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