Moon Boyoung is a poet and essayist from South Korea. Her debut collection, Pillar of Books, won the Kim Soo-young Prize and was translated into English in 2021. She has published three poetry collections, two fiction works, and five essay collections. She also runs Moon Letter, a handwritten postal project she has sent worldwide since 2018. In 2023, she joined the IWP in Iowa and is currently in the MFA program at the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program.

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