Ha-yun Jung’s writing has appeared in the Harvard Review, New York Times, Translation Review, and other publications. Her translations include fiction by Oh Jung-hee, Kim Hoon, Shin Kyung-sook, and Wallace Stevens’s poetry collection Harmonium, the first of his books to be made available in Korean. Her translation of Choi Eun-mi’s short story “Unnae” was published in Shenandoah’s seventy-fifth anniversary issue this spring. She teaches literary translation at Ewha Womans University in Seoul.
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