About
E. J. Koh is the author of the novel The Liberators, which won The New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. Her memoir The Magical Language of Others won the Washington State Book Award, Pacific Northwest Book Award, Association for Asian American Studies Book Award, and was longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award. Her poetry book A Lesser Love won the Pleiades Editors Prize for Poetry. Koh is a translator of Yi Won’s poetry collection The World’s Lightest Motorcycle, which won the Literature Translation Institute of Korea’s Translation Grand Prize. Her work has appeared in AGNI, The Atlantic, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, POETRY Magazine, Slate, Teen Vogue, and World Literature Today. Koh earned her MFA at Columbia University in New York for Creative Writing and Literary Translation and her PhD at the University of Washington in English Language and Literature studying Korean American literature, history, and film. Koh has received National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, and American Literary Translators Association fellowships.