• Authors

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  Jane Jeong Trenka

  Jane Jeong Trenka is an internationally adopted Korean and the author of two memoirs, The Language of Blood: A Memoir (2003) and Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee’s Return to Korea (2009). Together with Sun Yung Shin and Julia Chinyere Oparah, she co-edited the anthology Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption (2006). Trenka’s work on overseas adoption been cited for several prizes, most recently an Amnesty International Media Award in 2017 for the series “65 Years of Overseas Adoption,” published in the online newspaper Pressian together with Jeon Hong Kihye and Dr. Lee Kyung Eun. She and her work have also been cited for awards from Center for Children, Law and Ethics at Cumberland School of Law, Samford University; the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism; the Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea; the Korea Publication Ethics Commission; the Minnesota State Arts Board; the Loft-McKnight Foundation; the Loft Literary Center; Barnes & Noble Bookstore, and others. Her writing is taught in widely in American universities, and has been included in the Contemporary Period volume of the The Heath Anthology of American Literature. As an activist, Trenka was instrumental in revising Korea's Special Adoption Law in 2011 and continues to work on child rights and adoption-related issues in Korea. Trenka majored in public policy at the Graduate School of Public Administration at Seoul National University, writing her thesis on adoption law.

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  Jang Eunjin

  Jang Eunjin started her literary career in 2002 when she won Jeonnam Ilbo’s New Writer’s Contest. She has also received Munhakdongne's 2009 Writer's Award. She is the author of four novels, No One Writes Back, Alice’s Lifestyle, Where is Her Home?, and No Date, and three short story collections, including Kitchen Laboratory and Knocking at an Empty House. Her works in translation include No One Writes Back (Dalkey Archive, 2013) in English. “A Remote Place,” the story presented here, won the 2019 Lee Hyo-seok Literary Award and is included in her latest collection, Your Remote Place (2020).

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  Jang Ryujin

  Jang Ryujin studied sociology at Yonsei University and Korean literature at Dongguk University. She debuted in 2018 with the story “The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work,” which won the Changbi Prize for New Figures in Literature. Based on her experience of working in the IT sector, the story was widely read and shared on social media by office workers. She published The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work and Other Stories in 2019.

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  Jang Yong-min

  L'enfant ultime

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  Jean Marie Gustave Le Clezio

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  Jeon Sang-guk

  Jeon Sang-guk

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  Jeon Seok-sun

  Jeon Seok-sun

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  Jeon Soochan

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  Jeon Sungtae

  Wolves

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  Jeong Chan

  Jeong Chan is a novelist. Jung debuted with the publication of a novella in the magazine World of Language, in 1983. His story collections include The River of Memory, The Road of Comfort, and Die in Venice. His novels include Evening of the World, Golden Ladder, Under the Broom Tree, Wilderness, and A Wanderer. He has won many literary awards, including the Dongin Literary Award.