Chi-Young is a literary translator based in Los Angeles. A graduate of Wesleyan University, she worked at a publishing company in New York before heading out west. Chi-Young is the recipient of The Daesan Foundation Translation Grant in 2005 and 2008, and the 34th Modern Korean Literature Translation Award in 2003. Her translations include Kyung-sook Shin's Please Look After Mom (Knopf, 2011), Kyung Ran Jo's Tongue (Bloomsbury, 2009), Young-ha Kim's Your Republic Is Calling You (Mariner Books, 2010) and I Have the Right to Destroy Myself (Harvest Books, 2007), and Lee Dong-ha's Toy City (Koryo Press, 2007).

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