from Palace Poem

Heo Nanseolheon, pen name “White Orchid,” was a sequestered noblewoman who lived in sixteenth-century Korea. Considered by many Korean scholars to be the country’s greatest female poet, she died at twenty-seven. (updated 10/2022)

Ian Haight is the author of the poetry collection Celadon (Unicorn Press, 2017), winner of the Unicorn Press First Book Prize. With T’ae-yong Hŏ, he has co-translated four poetry collections, including Red Rain on a Spring Mountain: Complete Poems of Nansŏrhŏn (White Pine Press, forthcoming 2024) and Homage to Green Tea by the Korean monk Ch’oŭi (White Pine, forthcoming 2023). He is also the editor of Zen Questions and Answers from Korea (White Pine). He has won Ninth Letter’s Literary Award in Translation and has been awarded translation grants by the Daesan Foundation, the Korea Literary Translation Institute, and the Baroboin Buddhist Foundation. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in Barrow Street, AGNI Online, The Writer’s Chronicle, and Prairie Schooner. For more information visit ianhaight.com. (updated 10/2022)

T’ae-yong Hŏ is the co-translator, with Ian Haight, of four poetry collections, including Magnolia and Lotus: Selected Poems of Hyesim (White Pine Press, 2013) and Borderland Roads: Selected Poems of Kyun Hŏ (White Pine, 2009). Working from the original hansi, Hŏ’s translations of Korean poetry have appeared in The Poetry Review (U.K.), New Orleans Review, and Atlanta Review. He has been awarded translation grants from the Daesan Foundation and the Korea Literature Translation Institute. (updated 10/2022)