Yewon Jung is a reader first and translator second. Her translations include The Specters of Algeria and One Hundred Shadows by Hwang Yeo Jung. She is also the translator of No One Writes Back by Jang Eun-jin and one of the co-translators of A Most Ambiguous Sunday and Other Stories by Jung Young Moon, both published by Dalkey Archive as part of their Library of Korean Literature series.
Yewon Jung lives on a small island in Korea with her husband and enjoys taking long walks along the beach.
