Jack Saebyok Jung
Author
& Translator
Jack Saebyok Jung is a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow and the author of Hocus Pocus Bogus Locus (Black Square Editions, 2025). A Truman Capote Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he co-translated Yi Sang: Selected Works (Wave Books, 2020), winner of the MLA’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work. His next book of translation is Kim Hyesoon’s Lady No from Ecco. He teaches at Davidson College.
Upcoming Events
Feb 26, 2026|6:30pm
Translating Kim Hyesoon: Cindy Juyoung Ok and Jack Saebyok Jung with R. O. Kwon
Local Economy in Oakland welcomes Cindy Juyoung Ok and Jack Saebyok Jung for a reading of their translations of the Korean poet Kim Hyesoon, followed by a conversation with R. O. Kwon.