“Long, long later, I understood what Han was about. She was not my enemy. She was not cruel, and she did not delight in pain. What she truly wanted was relief — relief from the shame, the trauma, and the history I didn’t even know about. In her own ways, she was mirroring my hurts, insisting that I cry, shout, and feel things with full weight. Because without it, she knew that my life, my body, my spirit could never be so whole.”
— The Han of a Woman —
2026
NON FICTION: The Han of a Woman: Tracing the Forbidden Memory of the Korean War and the Invisible Wounds of Korean Womanhood (ASCJ)
Selected participant of the Asian Studies Conference Japan 2026
Presenter of the panel “(Un)Becoming “Asian”: Reclaiming the Lives and Memories Beyond Dominant Narratives”
Scheduled to take place on July 4-5, 2026 (Sophia University, Tokyo)
NON FICTION: Moon Jar (Tint Journal)
NON FICTION: On Time (The Upper Room)
2025
NON FICTION: The Han of a Woman (Tin House)
Selected participant of the Tin House Autumn Online Workshop
Virtual reading on September 28, 7:00-8:00 AM, Pacific Time
NON FICTION: On Loving Men in Silence (Black Horse Review)
2024
NON FICTION: Grieving in Your Name (Tint Journal)
Tinted Tales Reading (Cafe Erde in Graz, Austria)
“That Was . . . Tinted Tales Fall ‘24” Article by Tint Journal
2020
ESSAY: A Tender Heart of Spring Recess (Stories of the Pandemic, University of Alberta)
2019
FICTION: A Free Life
Runner up for the Viet Thanh Nguyen Writing Contest
Bamboo Ridge Journal of Hawaiʻi Literature and Arts Issue 118
NON FICTION: 터널의 끝에서 (Hope Magazine, Korea Blood Disease and Cancer Association)
2016
ESSAY: 사랑하는 코리아타운에게 (Sookdaeshinbo, Sookmyung Women’s University)
2015
FICTION: 코리아타운
Winner of the Wonkwang Kim Yong Literature Award in Fiction
2014
NON FICTION: 마침내 슬픔이 잠들었다
Winner of the Sookmyung Women’s University Autobiography Contest