Soje

Soje is the translator of Lee Hyemi’s Unexpected Vanilla (Tilted Axis Press, 2020), Lee Soho’s Catcalling (Open Letter Books, 2021), and Choi Jin-young’s To the Warm Horizon (Honford Star, 2021). They also make chogwa, a zine that features one Korean poem and multiple English translations per issue.

Soje was shortlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry and the 2022 Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation, and was longlisted for the 2022 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. They served as Modern Poetry in Translation’s 2020 Writer in Residence and the National Centre for Writing's 2024 Translator in Residence.

They are currently translating a novel by Serang Chung, plays by Yeonjae Kim, and an essay collection by Heo Su-gyeong.