Jihyun Yun is a Korean-American poet, freelance writer & Fulbright Research Fellow. 

​A winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, her full length collection SOME ARE ALWAYS HUNGRY will be published by The University of Nebraska Press in September 2020.

​She received her BA in Psychology from UC Davis, and her MFA from New York University where she was a fully funded fellow. She is currently working on a YA novel as a 2021-2022 Lighthouse Book Project Fellow.

​Originally from California, she now resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan.