“But unlike what his father had told him, America was not a paradise. Jisu found the weather too hot and dry. In school, it was worse: no one spoke to him or looked at him with tenderness. His host family didn’t like him either because every night the child refused to go to bed if he didn’t get to talk to his mother on the phone. At home or at school, Jisu closed his eyes and counted from one to ten. He believed one day God would do him a favor and bring him back to Korea.”
— The Untranslated
2025 (Upcoming)
TV DRAMA: 천국의 밤
Scheduled to be aired in fall 2025
2024
NON FICTION: Grieving In Your Name (Tint Journal)
Tinted Tales Reading (Cafe Erde in Graz, Austria)
2020
ESSAY: A Tender Heart of Spring Recess (Stories of the Pandemic, University of Alberta)
STORY COLLECTION: Rivers Between Us (Master’s Thesis, University of Hawaii)
2019
FICTION: A Free Life
Runner up for the Viet Thanh Nguyen Writing Contest
Bamboo Ridge Journal of Hawaii Literature and Arts Issue 118
2016
ESSAY: 사랑하는 코리아타운에게 (Yeohang Sooketch, Sookmyung Women’s University)
2015
FICTION: 코리아타운
Winner of the Kim Yong Literature Award in Fiction
2014
NON FICTION: 마침내 슬픔이 잠들었다
Winner of the Sookmyung Women’s University Autobiography Contest