I am a bilingual writer who writes fiction, nonfiction, and screenwriting in Korean and English. I am interested in stories that translate oppression into silence, and silene into personal shame. My work often involves Han (한恨), which is a Korean concept of accumulated grief, injustice, anger, longing, and endurance.

My writer path began in 2014. I wrote an essay collection called “At Last the Grief Fell Asleep,” which won the Sookmyung Women’s University Autobiography Contest. To my surprise, it led to an interview with the Korea Joongang Daily. The following year, my short story “Koreatown” received the Kim Yong Literature Award.

Later I moved to Hawaiʻi, where I earned an MA in English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. During my studies, my short story “A Free Life” was named as a runner-up for the Viet Thanh Nguyen Writing Contest. Since then, my work has appeared in Bamboo Ridge Journal, Tint Journal, Black Horse Review, and others. I am an alumna of the Tin House Workshop.

Now back in Seoul, my hometown, I write South Korean dramas, a speculative memoir, and a feature film script. A storyteller unbound by language or genre, I continue to seek the stories that have long lived inside me.