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Suphil Lee Park [1]

Listed as: 
Poet, Fiction Writer, Translator
Public address: 
US
Bio: 

Suphil Lee Park (수필 리 박 / 秀筆李朴) is a bilingual writer, poet, and translator who was born and grew up in South Korea before finding home in the States. 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.

She also won the 2021 Indiana Review Fiction Prize for her short fiction and received a fiction prize from Writer's Digest for her flash 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 graduated from New York University with a BA in English and from the University of Texas at Austin with an MFA in Poetry.

Gives readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Korean
Born in: 
South Korea
Raised in: 
South Korea
Website: 
https://www.suphil-lee-park.com/ [2]
Prizes won: 
  • 2020 Marystina Santiestevan Prize
  • Third prize in the 2021 Writer's Digest short short story competition
  • 2021 Indiana Review Fiction Prize
  • 2022 Tomaž Šalamun Prize
  • A notable essay in the 2022 Best American Essays
Education: 
University of Texas in Austin, New Writers Project
Identifies as: 
Asian American
Korean American
Prefers to work with: 
Any

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