경북 울진에서 태어나, 2005년 『시평』으로 작품 활동을 시작했다. 시집 『북평장날 만난 체 게바라』 『종점식당』 『돌아갈 곳 없는 사람처럼 서 있었다』 등이 있다. 작가정신 문학상, 고산문학대상, 만해문학상 등을 수상했다.

Kim Myoung Ki made his debut as a poet when his poems were published in Sipyeong, a quarterly poetry magazine, in 2005. His publications include Che Guevara Met at the Bukpyeong Fair, Last-Stop Eatery, and Like a Person Without a Place to Return. He is the recipient of the 2022 Gosan Literature Grand Prize and the 2022 Manhae Literature Prize.

서울대학교와 하버드대학교에서 영문학과 비교문학 박사학위를 받았으며, 현재 보스턴칼리지에서 강의하고 있다. 문예계간지 [ASIA] 편집위원으로 활동했으며, 권여선, 은희경, 한강, 황정은 등 다수의 한국문학 작품을 영어로 소개해 왔다. 우리말로 옮긴 책으로 『설득』, 『오만과 편견』, 『그레이트존스 거리』, 『에드거 앨런 포 단편선』, 『도심의 절간』, 『아서 고든 핌의 이야기』, 『지킬 박사와 하이드 씨의 기이한 이야기』와 앨런 홀링허스트의 부커상 수상작 『아름다움의 선』, 샤힌 아크타르의 아시아문학상 수상작 『여자를 위한 나라는 없다』 등이 있다.

Jeon Seung Hee is a literary scholar and critic as well as a leading translator of Korean literature. Her research interests include modern and contemporary Korean literature and culture, and she has published articles on war trauma, memories, and truths. Her translations include the 2016 Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Han Kang’s Convalescence (2013) and Bang Hyeonseok’s fiction Time to Eat Lobster (2016), which was selected for “75 Notable Translations of the Year” by World Literature Today, as well as Shaheen Akhtar’s The Search, which won the 3rd Asian Literature Award in 2020. She has been honored with a Fulbright Grant, a Korea Foundation Fellowship, and two Daesan Foundation Translation grants. Based in both Boston and Seoul, she is an associate professor in Korean at Boston College.