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Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Ward Toward (Yale University Press, 2024), a finalist for prizes from the Los Angeles Times and the National Book Critics Circle, and the winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize, a Balcones Prize, and a California Book Award. She is also the translator of The Hell of That Star by Kim Hyesoon, forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press. A MacDowell fellow, Forward Prize winner, and Poetry Society of America Lucille Medwick Memorial Award recipient, Ok is a former physics teacher and currently serves as an assistant professor of English at UC Davis and a visiting faculty member in the Randolph College low-residency M.F.A. program.
Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Ward Toward (Yale University Press, 2024), a finalist for prizes from the Los Angeles Times and the National Book Critics Circle, and the winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize, a Balcones Prize, and a California Book Award. She is also the translator of The Hell of That Star by Kim Hyesoon, forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press. A MacDowell fellow, Forward Prize winner, and Poetry Society of America Lucille Medwick Memorial Award recipient, Ok is a former physics teacher and currently serves as an assistant professor of English at UC Davis and a visiting faculty member in the Randolph College low-residency M.F.A. program.
