Suphil Lee Park

Suphil Lee Park (수필 리 박 / 秀筆 李 朴) is a bilingual writer, poet, and translator who was born and grew up in South Korea before finding home in the States. She's the author of the poetry collection, Present Tense Complex (Conduit Books & Ephemera, 2021), winner of the 2020 Marystina Santiestevan Prize, and a poetry chapbook, Still Life (Factory Hollow Press, 2023), selected by Ilya Kaminsky as the winner of the 2022 Tomaž Šalamun Prize.  She also won the 2021 Indiana Review Fiction Prize for her short fiction and received a fiction prize from Writer's Digest for her flash fiction. She's also the translator of If You're Going to Live to One Hundred, You Might as Well Be Happy by Rhee Kun Hoo (forthcoming from Union Square Press and Ebury, Penguin U.K., in 2024). She graduated from New York University with a BA in English and from the University of Texas at Austin with an MFA in Poetry.