Hyesoon Kim
Kim Hyesoon is a poet, essayist, and critic from South Korea. Her poetry collection Phantom Pain Wings, translated from Korean by Don Mee Choi, was a highlighted Book of the Year by The New York Times and The Washington Post. Her other collections include Autobiography of Death, Poor Love Machine, I’m OK, I’m Pig!, and All the Garbage of the World, Unite!. Her work has been translated into many languages, including Swedish, French, German, Polish, Persian, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, and Danish.
She has received multiple literary prizes, including the Samsung Ho-Am Prize, UK Royal Society of Literature International Writer Award, Cikada Prize, Lee Hyoung-Gi Literary Award, Griffin Poetry Prize, Daesan Poetry Award, Sowol Poetry Award, and Kim Su-Yong Literary Award.
Kim Hyesoon lives in Seoul and teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts.