WRITER AND ART HISTORIANS

JAE KIM & JENNY WU

JAE KIM

Jae Kim is a writer from South Korea and a translator of Korean and Japanese literature. He was born in Gangneung and moved to Narita, Japan, at age eleven, then to Anchorage, Alaska, at age fourteen. He received his BA from Princeton University and MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, where he served as Junior Writer-in-Residence. He was a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, and his fiction, translations, and reviews have appeared in journals such as Conjunctions, NOON, Guernica, Poets.org, Poem-a-Day, Chicago Review, Poetry, Poetry Review, Granta, Kenyon Review, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. "Roommate, Woman," his translation of Lee Young-ju’s poem in Korean, was among the winners of the inaugural Words Without Borders Poems-in-Translation Contest judged by Mónica de la Torre and appears in the anthology Four Quartets: Poetry in the Pandemic by Tupelo Press. Cold Candies: Selected Poems of Lee Young-ju, published by Black Ocean Press in 2021, won the 2022 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize.

JENNY WU

Jenny Wu is a fiction writer, critic, and independent curator. She holds a BA in English, summa cum laude, from Emory University, an MA in art history from Washington University in St. Louis, and an MFA in fiction from WashU, where she served as a teaching fellow in the Creative Writing Department. She has presented research at conferences in the US, UK, and Canada on global contemporary art and performance. Her writing has appeared in Artforum, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, New York Times Magazine, and The Washington Post, and she has organized exhibitions in New York and elsewhere, including "Texts and Soundings: The Image Talks Back" at the NARS Foundation in Brooklyn (2022) and "Test Flights" at Lower East Side Printshop in Manhattan (2023). She is a staff writer for The Millions and is represented by Kiele Raymond at Thompson Literary Agency.