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, Pacific Northwest Book Award, 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. Koh 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. Her work has appeared in AGNI, The Atlantic, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, POETRY, Slate, and World Literature Today. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, and American Literary Translators Association. 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.