Suphil Lee Park is a bilingual writer and translator who was born and grew up in South Korea. She wrote two poetry collections, The Other Test of Time (Carnegie Mellon University Press 2027) and Present Tense Complex (Conduit Books & Ephemera, 2021), winner of the Marystina Santiestevan Prize; and a poetry chapbook, Still Life (Factory Hollow Press, 2023), selected by Ilya Kaminsky as the winner of the Tomaž Šalamun Prize.

She is also the translator of An Unraveling of One, the anthology of pre-twentieth century Korean women poetry, forthcoming from TRP in 2027, and If You’re Going to Live to One Hundred, You Might As Well Be Happy by Rhee Kun Hoo (Union Square & Co, U.S. and Ebury, Penguin U.K 2024). In 2021 she won the Indiana Review Fiction Prize for her short fiction.

Samples of writing available online

Poetry

“A Little Light” (Poetry International)

“Where There Is No Hope There Is Calm” (The New Republic)

“End of a Journey” (Poetry Magazine)

Fiction

“The Last City of Ours” (The Harvard Advocate)

“Off” (Fiction on the Web)

“Hearsay” (J Journal)

Nonfiction

“Seaworthy” (Juked)

Translation

Three poems by Kim Hoyeonjae (Quarterly West)

Two poems by Kim Saumuidang (Willow Springs)