E.J. Koh is a highly acclaimed author and poet, best known for her memoir "The Magical Language of Others." This book, which was released in 2020, went on to win the Pacific Northwest Book Award and was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award.
Koh's writing has been widely published in a variety of prestigious outlets. Her poetry collection, "A Lesser Love," won the Pleiades Editors Prize in 2016. Her poems, translations, and stories have appeared in the Academy of American Poets, Prairie Schooner, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Slate, and World Literature Today, among other publications.
In addition to her writing accolades, Koh has also received numerous fellowships in recognition of her talents. She has been awarded fellowships from the American Literary Translators Association, the MacDowell Colony, Kundiman, the Vermont Studio Center, and others.
Koh has a strong academic background in creative writing and literary translation. She earned her MFA at Columbia University in New York for Creative Writing Poetry & Literary Translation in Korean and Japanese. She is currently completing her PhD at the University of Washington for English Language and Literature in Seattle.