Sun Yung Shin is a Korean-born poet, writer, collaborative artist, and bodyworker. They are the editor of What We Hunger For: Refugee and Immigrant Stories on Food and Family and A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota; the author of the poetry collections The Wet Hex (Coffee House Press), Unbearable Splendor, Rough, and Savage: Poems, and Skirt Full of Black; co-editor of Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption; and author of Cooper’s Lesson, a bilingual illustrated book for children. Personal and environmental violations form the backdrop against which Shin examines questions of grief, violence, and responsibility in The Wet Hex. Incorporating sources such as her own archival immigration documents, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Christopher Columbus’s journals, and traditional Korean burial rituals, Shin explores the ways that lives are weighed and bartered. Smashing the hierarchies of god and humanity, heaven and hell, in favor of indigenous Korean shamanism and animism, The Wet Hex layers an apocalyptic revision of 19th-century imagery of the sublime over the present, conjuring a reality at once beautiful and terrible.