Emily Jungmin Yoon

Emily Jungmin Yoon is a poet, translator, editor, and scholar. She was born in Busan, South Korea. She holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, an MFA from New York University, and a PhD in East Asian languages and civilizations from the University of Chicago.

Yoon is the author of the poetry collections Find Me as the Creature I Am (Knopf, 2024) and A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco Books, 2018), which was a finalist for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The book was translated into Korean by Han Yujoo and released in 2020. She is also the author of the chapbook Ordinary Misfortunes (Tupelo Press, 2017).

Yoon’s awards and fellowships include those from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Ploughshares, and Aspen Words. In 2017, she received the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. 

Yoon currently serves as the poetry editor for The Margins, the literary magazine of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and she is an assistant professor of Korean literature at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She splits her time between Honolulu and South Korea.