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Writing + Media

ESSAYS

  • Mother Tongue: For a bilingual new mother, parenting becomes an experiment in identity—both her child’s and her own. (Guernica)
  • Failure and Patience: Lessons from the Garden for Writers (Literary Hub)

REVIEWS

  • ArtReview:
    • ‘Hunger’ by Choi Jin-young: Love, Cannibalism and Contemporary Korea (July 2025)
  • Podcast with The Times Literary Supplement:
    • From Seoul to Stockholm (For cover story about Nobel Laureate Han Kang. Oct 2024)
  • Book and film reviews for The Times Literary Supplement:
    • A Hunger for Truth (Cover story about Nobel Laureate Han Kang. Oct 2024)
    • Like a Parachute Bursting Open (Review of LEMON by Kwon Yeo-sun, translated by Janet Hong. June 2022)
    • Death is a Small Price (Review of BEASTS OF A LITTLE LAND by Juhea Kim. Jan 2022)
    • Found in Translation (Review of the Film MINARI. April 2021)
    • The Natural Thing (Review of four Korean novels in translation. April 2020)
    • Better Judges (Review of two Yuko Tsushima novels. Aug 2018)
    • A Supernatural Hue (Review of THE WHITE BOOK by Han Kang. Jan 2018)
    • Welcome to Pyongyang (Review of THE SUN TYRANT by JP Floru. Oct 2017)
  • AUTHOR INTERVIEWS

    • Yoojin Grace Wuertz Takes on a Turbulent Moment in South Korean History (Interview with Andrea Arnold, Electric Literature)
    • KUCI-FM radio interview with Marrie Stone
    • podcast interview with Scott Jones at Give and Take
    • podcast interview with Public Libraries Online
    • KBTV (Korean language) TV interview Part 1, Part 2

    AUTHOR FEATURES

    • feature in 201 Magazine

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