ABOUT
E. J. Koh is the author of the novel The Liberators, an NPR Best Book, which won the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Pacific Northwest Book Award. Her memoir, The Magical Language of Others, won the Washington State Book Award, the Pacific Northwest Book Award, the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award, and was longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award. Her poetry collection A Lesser Love won the Pleiades Editors Prize for Poetry. She is a translator of Yi Won’s poetry collection The World’s Lightest Motorcycle, which won the Literature Translation Institute of Korea’s Translation Grand Prize. Koh’s work has appeared in AGNI, The Atlantic, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, POETRY, Poem-A-Day, Slate, and World Literature Today. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, and the American Literary Translators Association, as well as the Korean American Coalition of Washington's Artistic Achievement Award. She was a writer on the first season of Apple TV+'s Pachinko and wrote the episode "Chapter Four." Koh earned her MFA from Columbia University in Creative Writing and Literary Translation and her PhD from the University of Washington in English Language and Literature, where she studied Korean American literature, history, and film.