Emily Jungmin Yoon was born in Busan, Republic of Korea. Since the age of 10, she has lived in Victoria (BC, Canada), Philadelphia, New York City, and currently lives in Chicago. Her poems and translations have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Volta, POETRY, The Collagist, The Literary Review, and elsewhere. She is the 2015 winner of Ploughshares' Emerging Writer's Contest, AWP's WC&C Scholarship Competition, and the AAWW Fellowship to The Home School in Miami. She received her BA at the University of Pennsylvania and MFA at New York University, where she served as an Award Editor for the Washington Square Review and as a Starworks Fellow. She serves the Poetry Editor for The Margins, the literary magazine of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and is a PhD student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, literature, and forms of resistance in colonial-era Korea.