E. J. Koh is the author of the memoir The Magical Language of Others (Tin House Books, 2020), Washington State Book Award Winner, Pacific Northwest Book Award Winner, Association of Asian American Studies Book Award Winner, and PEN Open Book Award Longlist. Koh is the author of the poetry collection A Lesser Love (Louisiana State U. Press, 2017), Pleiades Editors Prize for Poetry Winner. She is the co-translator of Yi Won’s poetry collection The World’s Lightest Motorcycle (Zephyr Press, 2021), Literature Translation Institute of Korea’s Translation Grand Prize Winner. Koh has received the National Endowment of the Arts, American Literary Translators Association, MacDowell, and Kundiman fellowships. Her work has appeared in AGNI, The Atlantic, POETRY, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. Her debut novel The Liberators is forthcoming November 7, 2023.