Janet Hong

Janet
Hong

Janet Hong is a writer and translator living in Vancouver, Canada. Her work has appeared in Brick: A Literary Journal, Lit Hub, Asia Literary Review, Words Without Borders, Two Lines, and the Korea Times, and she received PEN American Center’s PEN/Heim Translation Fund for her translation of The Impossible Fairytale.

Janet Hong is a writer and translator living in Vancouver, Canada. Her work has appeared in Brick: A Literary Journal, Lit Hub, Asia Literary Review, Words Without Borders, Two Lines, and the Korea Times, and she received PEN American Center’s PEN/Heim Translation Fund for her translation of The Impossible Fairytale.

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