Hyejung Kook’s poetry has appeared in Poem-a-Day, POETRY Magazine, the Denver Quarterly, Memorious, Prairie Schooner, The Massachusetts Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Pleiades, and elsewhere. Hyejung was born in Seoul, Korea, grew up in Pennsylvania, and now lives in Prairie Village, Kansas with her husband and their two young children. She holds a B.A. from Harvard University and an M.F.A. from New York University. As a Fulbright grantee, she spent a year teaching English at Bongmyeong Middle School in Cheongju, Korea. She is a Kundiman fellow and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Bettering American Poetry.