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Translated by Sharon Cho and Suhyun J. Ahn 1. I really like that you explored a feminist topic, i.e. the bonds among women, in the setting of Mars and with non-human protagonists. How did you come to create this novel the way you did? I participated in a project where seven women authors collaborated to
Translated by Sharon Cho and Suhyun J. Ahn 1. Your story is about someone experiencing discrimination after being turned into a woman due to bioterrorism, which I thought was unique. Also, you vividly portray the relationships made within the restraints of hierarchy, such as how it feels to have someone take credit for your own
Translated by Sharon Cho and Suhyun J. Ahn 1. I’d like to know what motivated you to write this story. You must have been thinking of feminism since you sent me this story upon request. I think you were probably also grappling with the issue of existence, as the story involves a deteriorating building and
A Relatively Peaceful Day of Yours by An Boyun Translated by Janine Kruger The name was born one step ahead of Yoo Jin. At that time Yoo Jin was a gourd shape, suspended in her mother’s uterus. Her nest in the ultrasound picture was like a hollow eye, a coal-black cavity. “You see this spot
“Sad Gay” and Four Poems By Che Ho-ki Translated by Jae Hyung Woo Your Death Was I Scooping out my two eyes I bury you there. My remaining life, blinded, flies crookedly Where does it fall? If there still are days to cast a glance here It would be for nobody’s eyelashes but for you
Transgender Basketball Club By Kim Bi Translated by Victoria Caudle My life was destroyed. That is, if I ever had a life. If I ever had been given a moment of equality like when the whistle blows, the jump ball is tossed, and me and the person standing before me jump up at the same