About the Interviewee

Emily Jungmin Yoon is Assistant Professor of Korean Literature at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She is the author of A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco | HarperCollins, 2018), published in Korean as 우리 종족의 특별한 잔인함 (trans. Han Yujoo, Yolimwon 2020), and Find Me as the Creature I Am, forthcoming from Knopf. She is the translator and editor of Against Healing: Nine Korean Poets , a chapbook anthology of poems by Korean women writers. Before earning her MFA at New York University and her PhD at University of Chicago, Yoon received her BA in English and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, where she began her studies in literary translation.