Jennifer Kwon Dobbs
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs was born in Wonju-Si, South Korea. Her debut collection,
Paper Pavilion, received the
White Pine Press Poetry Prize and was published in 2007. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in
5 AM,
Blackbird,
Cadences,
Crazyhorse,
Cimarron Review,
Cream City Review,
MiPOesias,
Poetry NZ, and
Tulane Review, among other journals; have been anthologized in
Echoes Upon Echoes (Asian American Writers Workshop, 2003) and
Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (W. W. Norton, 2008); featured on radio and in film; and translated into Greek, Korean, and Turkish. Currently, she is assistant professor of creative writing at St. Olaf College and lives in Minneapolis.
Posted on January 2, 2009 6:09 AM
