Lee Sumyeong

Lee Sumyeong was born in Seoul in 1965 and graduated from Seoul National University. She received her PhD from Chung-Ang University’s Department of Creative Writing for research on the Korean surrealist poet Kim Koo-yong. In 1994, she published five poems, including ‘We Have Enough’, at the Writers’ World Awards, and made her literary debut with the Emerging Poet of the Year award. She has published eight books of poetry and numerous other books of essays and anthologies. She has received the Park In-hwan Literature Award, the Contemporary Poetry Award, the Nojak Literature Award, the Lee Sang Poetry Award, the Kim Chun-so Poetry Award, and the Cheongma Literature Award. She lectures on poetry writing and poetics at various universities, including Chung-Ang University and Dongduk Women’s University). Her poems have appeared in Rabbit, Lana Turner, Asymptote, Chicago Review, Firmament, and elsewhere. Her full-length poetry collection in English, Just Like (translated by Colin Leemarshall) is coming soon from Black Ocean.