Janet Hong

Janet Hong is a writer and translator based in Vancouver, Canada. She received the 2018 TA First Translation Prize for her translation of Han Yujoo's The Impossible Fairy Tale, which was also a finalist for both the 2018 PEN Translation Prize and the 2018 National Translation Award. She has translated Ha Seong-nan's Flowers of Mold, Ancco's Bad Friends, and Keum Suk Gendry-Kim's Grass.

Fiction Bodies & Nature Class Family & Relationships

Thirteen

Fiction by Kim Yi-seol, translated from the Korean by Janet Hong January 30, 2020

The real reason every one of them backed away, scared shitless, was because of her hard, black nipples. Her nipples were more terrifying than the curses her mouth spewed or the fire in her eyes.