https://www.ejkoh.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-09-30 https://www.ejkoh.com/home daily 1.0 2026-10-01 https://www.ejkoh.com/home/loveletters monthly 0.5 2026-10-01 https://www.ejkoh.com/home/about monthly 0.5 2026-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6254a6ea7d78a84d81de8c21/5ddfe6c2-5677-4418-ac20-fcc8f5e69879/Koh_Author_Final+2.JPG HOME - 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. https://www.ejkoh.com/home/themagicallanguageofothers monthly 0.5 2026-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6254a6ea7d78a84d81de8c21/43c4e3b2-d393-4b53-b857-f9c31d49d49d/BookCover.jpeg HOME - The Magical Language of Others - Washington State Book Award Winner, Pacific Northwest Book Award Winner, Association of Asian American Studies Book Award Winner, PEN/Open Book Award Longlist, One of the Best Books by Asian American Writers by Oprah Daily, The Magical Language of Others is the work of a fearless and poetic mind grappling with forgiveness, legacy, and intergenerational trauma. Told through the forty-nine letters E. J. Koh's mother wrote to her in Korean after leaving her in California at fifteen, it is a story of translation, reconciliation, and love among four generations of women. ISBN: 9781951142278 Pages: 224 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6254a6ea7d78a84d81de8c21/9db974b3-c990-4921-937c-b7ec60d59fb3/Magical+Language+Cover.jpg HOME - The Magical Language of Others "Stunning." —Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel "A beautifully crafted saga...graceful and moving." —Nicole Chung, All You Can Ever Know “Poignant…. Koh writes beautifully of the sacrifices made for love and of the intergenerational tensions between a mother and daughter.” —Oprah Daily "A moving portrait of abandonment, forgiveness, and the strength of maternal love." —TIME "Koh’s book is a tremendous gift. We’re so fortunate to have this literary reckoning from a tremendously talented writer. The Magical Language of Others is a wonder.” —The San Francisco Chronicle “A haunting, gorgeous narrative…lushly told. Brilliant.” —The Star Tribune https://www.ejkoh.com/home/alesserlove monthly 0.5 2026-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6254a6ea7d78a84d81de8c21/a108c1e4-bbf3-47e7-bd8c-d7050bd30a1e/Final+A+Lesser+Love+front+cover.jpg HOME - A Lesser Love In A Lesser Love, Pleiades Editors Prize for Poetry Winner, readers find poems composed of "Ingredients for Memories that Can Be Used as Explosives" and those composed of chemistry equations that convert light into "reasonable dioxide" then further transmogrify into a complex parent-child relationship. "Love, war and recovered testimony from Korea's unhealed border inform the formal and imaginative boundaries within Koh's panoptic poems. Koh imagines the details of her CIA file, revises the Pledge of Allegiance, and translates Beyoncé." —D. A. Powell, Useless Landscape, Or A Guide for Boys “Koh, whose distinctive voice can startle as it soothes, whose invention is a book that delights, disrupts, razes, edifies, and refuses ever to be just one thing. A Lesser Love is first-rate, intelligent, and pure gold—a triumph.” —Timothy Donnelly, The Problem of the Many "Born from the pain of immigration, the pain of immigrant parents—their relentless labor for survival, their neglected children. Koh is an inheritor of Korea's violent history, her language is crevassed with historical anger, loss, and violence." —Don Mee Choi, DMZ Colony "Unshirking, Koh’s verse is spare, evocative, and gut-moving, drawing out into interludes of clever reflections on cultural place." —World Literature Today "Every new poem begins with a cooing excitement, a chance to make things right. Every birth is an opportunity to take revenge... Koh reminds us the choice is ours to make, every single time." —Seattle Review of Books ISBN: 978-0807167779 Pages: 88 https://www.ejkoh.com/home/publications monthly 0.5 2026-10-01 https://www.ejkoh.com/home/theliberators monthly 0.5 2026-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6254a6ea7d78a84d81de8c21/3574b45b-5278-4aa7-b99a-f13883d579e5/Liberators_cover_paper_v2.jpg.jpeg