E. J. Koh is the author of the memoir The Magical Language of Others (Tin House Books, 2020), which won the Pacific Northwest Book Award and was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award, and the poetry collection A Lesser Love (Louisiana State University Press, 2017), which won the Pleiades Editors Prize for Poetry. She is the translator, with Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, of Yi Won’s The World’s Lightest Motorcycle (Zephyr Press, 2021). Her poems, translations, and stories have appeared in Boston Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, AGNI, Slate, World Literature Today, and elsewhere. She is a PhD candidate in Korean and Korean American literature, history, and film at the University of Washington in Seattle. (updated 10/2021)