Contributors

Soje

editor - all issues

translator - issue 6, 8, 11

Soje is a poet and the translator of Lee Hyemi’s Unexpected Vanilla (Tilted Axis Press, 2020), Choi Jin-young’s To the Warm Horizon (Honford Star, 2021), and Lee Soho’s Catcalling (Open Letter Books, 2021). They currently write, translate, and teach poetry in New York.

Read more at smokingtigers.com/soje.

Jaewon Che

translator - all Korean issues
cover artist - issue 5, poet - issue 11

jaewon che is a painter and a writer. Interested in opposing forces and beautiful boys. Currently working on a poetry collection and translating Lee Jenny. An avid believer of the multiverse chogwa discoveries and embraces. Can be reached at jaewonche@gmail.com.

Hoyoung Moon

translator - all Korean issues

Hoyoung Moon is a translator and writer based in Seoul. They translated You Have Reached the End of the Future by Hwang Inchan (Asia Publishers, 2021), the Korean edition of What About the Rest of Your Life by sung (Media ILDA, 2020), and the English lyrics for Lang Lee’s album Playing God, among others. Their work can also be found in Modern Poetry in Translation, Azalea, Asymptote, and Korean Literature Now. Their email is hoyoungmoonj@gmail.com.

dahyun kim

translator - issues 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12

dahyun kim, ex-English literature student, wrote two dissertations on Raymond Carver, short story lover, not a huge fan of science fiction but loves anything to do with time travel, thinks that translation is really hard despite that being a big part of her job, wants someone to translate everything that Kim Keum-hee has ever written into English, can be found at @wise_tea_ on Twitter.

grace hs.p.

translator - issues 1, 2, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12

grace hs.p. is a translator living in Suwon. Translations by her have appeared in Asymptote and a number of journals of sociology and anthropology. She was awarded a commendation prize at the 50th Korea Times translation awards for her translation of Kim Sagwa’s short story “Burial.“

Helen Hwayeon

translator - issues 2, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11

Helen Hwayeon is a writer and translator. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she moved to the US and spent her formative years in Los Angeles as a 1.5 generation immigrant before continuing her studies on the East Coast. Kim's practice concerns translation as a mode of life and investigates the ways multilingualism shapes artistic and literary experience. In addition to chogwa, her words can be found in Aster(ix) Journal and in "Borum," Taiwanese artist Hong-Kai Wang's exhibition catalogue of her project on "wind" for the 2020 Jeju Biennale. She tweets and posts on Instagram @helenorhyk.

Seth Chandler

translator - issues 2, 5, 6, 10, 11

Seth Chandler is a literary and academic translator. He received his master's degree in modern Korean poetry from Seoul National University and studied translation at the LTI Translation Academy. His work has appeared in Azalea, Korean Literature Now, chogwa zine, and elsewhere.

Archana Madhavan

translator - issues 1, 2, 5, 6, 10

Archana Madhavan is a literary translator from Korean into English. Her first book-length work is a co-translation of Glory Hole by Kim Hyun (Seagull Books, 2022). Her poetry and prose translations have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, The Kenyon Review, Columbia Journal, and more. In 2022, Archana was selected as the Korean poetry mentee for the ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program. Her work can be found online at archanawrites.com.

E. Yae Won

translator - issue 3, 10, 11, 12

E. Yae Won is a translator based in Korea. She has translated Hwang Jungeun, Yi SangWoo, Kim Soom, and Cheon Heerahn into English, and her translations into Korean of Samuel Beckett, Deborah Levy, and Ali Smith are forthcoming.

Sung Ryu

translator - issues mini, 6, 11, 12

Sung Ryu is a Korean-English translator who has lived in South Korea, the US, Canada, and most recently Singapore. Her translations include Tower by Bae Myung-hoon (2021), I’m Waiting for You: And Other Stories by Kim Bo-Young (co-translated with Sophie Bowman, 2021), Shoko’s Smile by Choi Eunyoung (2021), and the Korean edition of Grandma Moses: My Life’s History by Anna Mary Robertson Moses (2017). She translated the Jeju myth “Segyeong Bonpuri” (Origins of the Harvest Deities) for her MA thesis.

Emily Bettencourt

translator - issues 1, 6, 10, 12

Emily is a Korean-English translator and serial adopter of passion projects currently living in Portland, Oregon. She attended the LTI Korea Translation Academy in 2017-2019 and, in a kismetic overlap of interests, is the translator of Cha Miju's Philosophizing About BTS (2020) and Kim Namguk's BTS Insight (2021). She has translated poems by Lee Jenny and Ra Heeduk for Puerto del Sol and Asymptote, and her translation of "Across the Tooniverse" by Im Guk-yeong appeared in Azalea. She can be reached on Instagram and Twitter at @peonydust.

Anton Hur

translator - issues 1, 3, 5, 10

Go to antonhur.com for more details.

Si Yon Kim

translator - issues 1, 6, 12

Si Yon Kim is a Korean writer. She is working on two speculative novels. Find her on Twitter @seeyawning.

Anna

translator - issue 6, 7, 12

Anna is a Korean-English translator based in Seoul. She holds an MA in Korean Literature from Yonsei University. She can be contacted at ajoytranslation.com/contact

Victoria Caudle

translator - issues mini, 7, 10

Victoria Caudle is a literary translator and PhD candidate at UCLA. She has an MA in Korean Language and Literature from Seoul National University and an MA in Literary Translation from the University of East Anglia. She is the translator of Dolki Min's Walking Practice (HarperVia, 2023) and has had translations published in Words Without Borders, Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature and Culture, and Nabillera. Her Twitter and Instagram handle is @nureonjongi.

Gene

translator - issue 8, 12

Gene is a Singaporean literary translator and illustrator based in Seoul. You can find her at linktr.ee/robinbythewindow

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