E.J. Koh Explained

E.J. Koh is an American poet, author and translator of Korean literature whose memoir The Magical Language of Others was released by Tin House Books in 2020 and received the 2021 Washington State Book Award for Biography/Memoir[1] and the 2021 Pacific Northwest Book Award.[2] Her poetry collection A Lesser Love was published by LSU Press in 2017 won the Pleiades Press Editors Prize.[3] [4]

Koh is the recipient of The Virginia Faulkner Award and fellowships from the American Literary Translators Association,[5] Jack Straw Writers Program,[6] Kundiman (nonprofit organization), MacDowell Colony,[7] Napa Valley Writers' Conference, and Vermont Studio Center.[8]

Early life and education

Koh was born in 1988 in San Jose, California.[9] Koh earned her MFA at Columbia University in New York for Creative Writing and Literary Translation. She is completing her PhD at the University of Washington in English Language and Literature.[10]

Career

Her memoir, The Magical Language of Others, published in 2020, weaves the stories of four generations of women in Koh's family. Interspersed with letters exchanged between mother and daughter, the text illustrates how language ties them together.[11]

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. News: 2021-09-10. Washington State Book Awards 2021!. en-US. 2021-12-02.
  2. Web site: Congratulations to the Winners of the 2021 Pacific Northwest Book Awards. 2021-05-27. NW Book Lovers. en-US.
  3. Web site: The Magical Language of Others with E.J. Koh. 2021-05-27. www.koreasociety.org. en-gb.
  4. Web site: E. J. Koh - Artist. 2021-05-27. MacDowell. en.
  5. Web site: Meet the '17 Mentees: E.J. Koh The American Literary Translators Association. 2021-05-27. www.literarytranslators.org.
  6. Web site: Jack Straw Writers Program. 2021-05-27. www.jackstraw.org.
  7. Web site: E. J. Koh - Artist. 2021-05-27. MacDowell. en.
  8. Web site: Poetry Foundation. 26 May 2021.
  9. Web site: E.J. Koh's Memoir The Magical Language of Others Is a Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Korean Genius. 2021-05-27. Portland Mercury. en.
  10. Web site: E. J. Koh. 2021-05-27. Tin House. en-US.
  11. Briefly Noted Book Reviews. live. 2021-05-27. The New Yorker. en-US. https://web.archive.org/web/20200403014624/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/06/the-precipice-the-magical-language-of-others-the-glass-hotel-and-then-the-fish-swallowed-him . 2020-04-03 .

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