EMILY JUNGMIN YOON is the author of Ordinary Misfortunes epi A Cruelty Special to Our Species, a finalist for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and Ploughshares, and her work has appeared in Nouvèl Yòkè a, Pwezi, Magazin New York Times, The Paris Review, ak The Sewanee Review. Yoon is the poetry editor for Marj yo, the literary magazine of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and she is an assistant professor of Korean literature at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She splits her time between Honolulu and South Korea.