Category: writing

  • It’s no secret I love Park Seolyeon’s work. I recently had the pleasure of her reviewing her new novel, “Project V,” translated by Gene Png. The review appears in the latest issue of Korean Literature Now magazine. Thank you so much to their fantastic editorial staff for the opportunity! You can read the review HERE.…

  • Last month, I attended the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference. In the days before, I was so nervous. “What if the other kids don’t like me?” I wondered. Those fears didn’t matter, in the end. A different version of myself came back down from that mountain. Surrounding myself with others who believe that reading and writing…

  • “Yesterday, we handed our written list of demands to the university. I don’t think I will ever forget how I felt, printing off the documents and running together to the Student Support Office with them tightly clutched in our arms” – Yuka, Former Steering Committee Member, University of Tokyo Palestine Solidarity Encampment Thank you so…

  • Last month, I went to Japan for 12 days. It was the second time I have been there; the first with my husband. I had therapy the day before the trip and after I was done agonizing over all of the ways in which I could tragically die in a plane crash, I spent the…