Kim Yideum is an outspoken feminist hailed as one of the greatest poets in South Korea today, and her works in translation include Cheer Up, Femme Fatale (Action Books, 2015), and Hysteria (Action Books, 2019). Having received her PhD with a dissertation on Korean feminist poetics, she has taught at Gyeongsang National University, served as a culture columnist, and hosted a poetry radio show. She has received numerous awards for her poetry, including the Poetry and the World Literary Award (2010), the Kim Daljin Changwon Award (2011), the 22nd Century Literary Award (2015), and the Kim Chunsoo Award (2015). Ms. Kim owns and operates Café Yideum, a bookstore–café, in Ilsan, a satellite city of Seoul. Blood Sisters, originally published to great renown in South Korea in 2011, is her debut novel.

Jiyoon Lee is a poet and translator whose most recent publications include Poems of Kim Yideum, Kim Haengsook, and Kim Minjeong: The Collection of Contemporary Korean Poetry (Vagabond Press, 2017). Her translation of Kim Yideum’s book of poetry, Cheer Up, Femme Fatale (Action Books, 2015), was shortlisted for the Lucien Stryk Prize. She is also the author of Foreigner’s Folly (Coconut Books, 2014), Funsize/Bitesize (Birds of Lace, 2013), and IMMA (Radioactive Moat, 2012). She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame.

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