Jennifer Kwon Dobbs’s debut collection, Paper Pavilion (White Pine Press, 2007), received the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Cadences, Crazyhorse, Cimarron Review, MiPOesias, Poetry NZ, and have been anthologized in Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (W. W. Norton, 2008) and Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings (Asian American Writers Workshop, 2003). Her work has been featured on radio and in film, and has been translated into Greek, Korean, and Turkish. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and serves as an assistant professor of creative writing at Saint Olaf College.  

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