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  • Notes on Contributors

AZALEA generally adheres to the McCune-Reischauer system in transcribing Korean into English. However, many Korean contributors have not followed this convention, and we respect their way of writing their names in English.

Emily Bettencourt is a translator of fiction and poetry from English to Korean. She is the translator of Ch'a Michu's Philosophizing about BTS, and Kim Namkuk's BTS Insight. Her poetry translations have appeared in chogwa, Puerto del Sol, and Asymptote.

Victoria Caudle is a translator and PhD student in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. She has an MA in Korean Language and Literature from Seoul National University and an MA in Literary Translation from the University of East Anglia. Her translations have appeared in Words Without Borders, Korean Literature Now, and Nabillera.

Seth Chandler works as a freelance academic and literary translator. He received his master's degree in modern Korean literature from Seoul National University and studied translation at the LTI Korea Translation Academy. His work has appeared in poetry translation webzine chogwa and elsewhere.

Sean Lin Halbert received his BA in Korean language from the University of Washington and his MA in modern Korean literature from Seoul National University. He is a recipient of the GKL Translation Award, the LTI Korea Award for Aspiring Translators, and the Korea Times Modern Korean Literature Translation Award.

Han Junghyun is a fiction writer and scholar of Korean cultural history. Winner of the 2021 Munhak Tongne Young Writer's Award and the 2019 Minumsa Today's Writer Award, Han often expands on her academic research in her fiction, adding vivid human desires and depth to what might have remained a footnote in official historical texts.

Hwang Jiun is a South Korean novelist who debuted in the literary scene with the short story, "Goodbye, Peter," which won the 2009 Spring Literary Contest organized by the South Korean daily newspaper, Munhwa Ilbo. Hwang's first short story collection exploring the key themes of queerness and hardship was published in April 2021. Hwang is currently based in Kwangju, South Korea.

Im Guk Yeong is a writer of fiction and winner of the 2017 Changbi Newcomers Literature Award. His first collection of short fiction, titled Across the Tooniverse, was published in 2021 by Jamobook. Along with poet Chŏng Tayŏn, he is the co-host of a literature and culture YouTube channel.

Jeong Yi-yong majored in visual communication design at university. In 2013, he debuted as a cartoonist with the graphic novel, In-Between Seasons, based on Dongeun Lee's scenario. Since then, he has collaborated with Dongeun Lee to publish Mothers (2015), Family Affair (2016), Yoyo (2019), and Jin, Jin (2020), all in Korea. He is currently working as a cartoonist and illustrator.

Kenneth Kang is an undergraduate student at Brown University. Born at the intersection of multiple identities, he has always loved to find pieces of his own reflection in books and movies that he consumed. Ever since he took a translation course in his first year of college, he has been exploring his passion for the art of translation.

Kim Choyeop was born in 1993 and began her literary work after obtaining an undergraduate degree in Chemistry and a master's degree in Biochemistry at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). She is the author of three short-story collections and co-author of the non-fiction, Becoming a Cyborg (2021). She was the recipient of Minumsa publishing group's 2019 Writer of the Year Award and Munhak Tongne's 2020 Young Writer Award.

Eunsol Kim studies International Relations at the University of British Columbia, where she has studied Korean-English translation in modern Korean fiction during her undergraduate studies. Her areas of interest include the history of colonial Korea, Asian anticolonialism in the postwar period, and the Korean diaspora.

Kim Hyun is a prize-winning writer of three poetry collections as well as a number of essay and short-story anthologies. His most recent work, Nat ŭi haebyŏn eso honja (Alone at the Beach During the Day), was published in 2021 as part of the Hyundae Munhak Pin Series, a project that highlights noteworthy Korean...

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