Lee Jenny made her literary debut as the winner of the 2008 Kyunghyang Daily News New Writer’s Contest. She is the author of the poetry collections PIROWA PADOWA (Maybe Africa) (2010), Because We Don’t Know Us (2014), The Things That Were Thus Scribbled (2019), and The Sentences That Aren’t Even There Are Beautiful (2019), as well as the essay collection Dawn and Music (2024). Lee has been awarded the 2011 Pyeon-un Literature Award, the 2016 Kim Hyeon Literary Competition, and the 2022 Contemporary Literature (Hyundae Munhak) Award. Her translations of Korean poetry have appeared in Asymptote, Modern Poetry In Translation, The Kenyon Review, Washington Square Review, Azalea, The Adroit Journal, chogwa, and more.
