I am a writer, editor, and translator from South Korea, now living in Berlin.

I hold a BA in English Literature and a BA in French from Ohio Wesleyan University, and an MPhil in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin.

My essays, stories, poetry, and translations have been published in online and print journals in Korea, Ireland, Germany, and the U.S.. My essay "Ten Thousand Scherzos" was selected a finalist for The Iowa Review Contest for Nonfiction in 2018, and my essay "Memory Collage 1" was selected an honorary mention for The Kenyon Review Contest for Short Nonfiction in 2019.

The Dublin Review published my essay “Seven Days” in 2021 and selected it for their 14-year anniversary anthology, Show Your Work: Essays from The Dublin Review, published in 2022. My translation of Pak Kyongni’s short story “The Age of Darkness” appears in the collection The Age of Doubt, published by Honford Star in 2022. See my detailed publication list below.

I am a prose editorial assistant for The Willowherb Review, a journal of nature writing for writers of color. I am a member of Smoking Tigers, a Korean-English literary translators’ collective.

I am working on my first book, a collection of essays on memory, migration, language and love.

Contact

dayang@tcd.ie
+49 0160 9190 5436

Publications

  • A Review of ‘The Vegetarian’, review, College Green (Winter 2017/18), print

  • “Ten Thousand Scherzos”, essay, The Tangerine (Spring 2018), print

  • “Genetically Speaking”, poem, The North by Poetry Business (January 2019), print

  • “Herakles was an important Greek hero and the elimination of Geryon constituted one of His celebrated Labors: A Cento” and other poems, stadtsprachen magazine (April 2019), online

  • “Her Name Was Jangmi”, poem, harana poetry (June 2019), online

  • “Snail” by Choi Jin-young, translation, chogwa zine (August 2019), online

  • “Free Meal” by Kim Haeja, translation, chogwa zine (February 2020), online

  • “Enemy Green”, essay, The Willowherb Review (Issue 2, Spring 2020), online

  • “Essays on Modern Love”, essay, Tolka (Issue 1, Spring 2021), print

  • “Seven Days”, essay, The Dublin Review (Issue 84, Autumn 2021), print

  • “Jangmi”, essay, Channel Magazine (Issue 5, Autumn 2021), print

  • “The Age of Darkness” by Pak Kyong-ni, translation, Honford Star (September 2022), print 

  • “Seven Days”, essay, Show Your Work: Essays from The Dublin Review (2022), print

Awards & Nominations

  • Government of Ireland Scholarship: Full tuition remission + €10,000 stipend (2016 – 2017)

  • “Ten Thousand Scherzos”: Finalist, The Iowa Review Award for Nonfiction (2018)

  • “Memory Collage 1”: Honorable Mention, The Kenyon Review Short Nonfiction Award (2019)

  • “Enemy Green”: Finalist, Francine Ringold Award for Emerging Writers (2019)

Residencies, Readings, Engagements

  • Can Serrat Artist Residency, Residency, Can Serrat, September 2018

  • Fiction Canteen, Reading, Berlin, 15.11.2018

  • Literally Speaking, Reading, Berlin, 15.04.2019

  • FERNOSTBERLIN. PARATAXE SYMPOSIUM V. PANEL III: BERLINASIA - FASZINATION UND VERFLECHTUNG, Reading, Berlin, 22.05.2019

  • Vermont Studio Center, Residency (Selected and offered scholarship, unable to attend due to expanses), Vermont, USA, 4.8 – 30.8.2019

  • Kendal Mountain Literature Festival, Panel discussion, Online, 22.11.2020

  • Launch of Tolka: Issue One, Reading, Online, 23.05.2021

  • Launch of Channel: Issue 5, Reading (26:19 - 28:13), Online, 11.11.2021

  • in tandem: live literature, Reading, Berlin, 7.7.2022

  • Climate Cultures Festival: Climate Writing in Taiwan with Jessica J. Lee, Moderation, Berlin, 28.8.2022

Editorial Work

  • Freelance Editor, Proofreader, Sensitivity Reader, KR<>EN Translator, 2013 - Current

  • Editorial Intern, Dalkey Archive Press (Dublin, April 2018 – September 2018)

  • Prose Editorial Assistant, The Willowherb Review (Online, Fall 2018 – Present)