Suphil Lee Park

Suphil Lee Park (수필리박 / 秀筆李朴) is a bilingual writer, poet, and translator who was born and grew up in South Korea. She's the author of the poetry collection, Present Tense Complex (Conduit Books & Ephemera, 2021), winner of the 2020 Marystina Santiestevan Prize, and a poetry chapbook, Still Life (Factory Hollow Press, 2023), selected by Ilya Kaminsky as the winner of the 2022 Tomaž Šalamun Prize. In 2021, she won the Indiana Review Fiction Prize for her short fiction.

She's also the translator of If You're Going to Live to One Hundred, You Might as Well Be Happy by Rhee Kun Hoo (Union Square Press and Ebury, Penguin U.K., in 2024). She also translated An Unraveling of One, an anthology of pre-20th-century Korean women’s poetry (forthcoming from TRP, 2027). https://suphil-lee-park.com/