Youngseo Lee writes poetry and creative nonfiction, as well as translates from Korean.
founding editor-in-chief of Pollux Journal, a literary magazine dedicated to multilinguality // assistant poetry editor at Split Lip Mag // interviews editor & translator at The Hanok Review
selected publications
“ode", The Cortland Review - poetry
“i, too, would like a manic pixie dream girl” and “are koreans human?”, Diode Poetry Journal – poetry
"plaza", "Scribbles", "today's menu", and "change of season" by Park Joon, AzonaL – translation
"someday i'll love youngseo lee", Kissing Dynamite Poetry – poetry
"hypnagogia: in which i go bad in the summer", perhappened mag – cnf, nominated for 2021 Best of the Net Awards
"autopsy, but flourished with prayer", Dishsoap Quarterly – hybrid
all publications
2022
"doña juana la loca", Cosmonauts Avenue (forthcoming) – poetry“ode", The Cortland Review - poetry"Islanders", Passages North (in print) – cnf"sunday (poem on the bleachers)", OROTONE Journal – poetry"Superstition" and "flash flood warning" by Park Joon, Asymptote – translation"plaza", "Scribbles", "today's menu", and "change of season" by Park Joon, AzonaL – translation
2021
"sudo python meAsNotAnOctopus.py", A Velvet Giant – poetry“i, too, would like a manic pixie dream girl” and “are koreans human?”, Diode Poetry Journal – poetry"Playing Ghost" by Kim Bokhui, Chogwa – translation"chandler notes", Gone Lawn – hybrid"Love Turns My Thumb Green" and "D-3", Lanke Review – poetry"solitary confinement in dancing" by Lee Hyemi, Chogwa – translation"someday i'll love youngseo lee", Kissing Dynamite Poetry – poetry"hypnagogia: in which i go bad in the summer", perhappened mag – cnf, nominated for 2021 Best of the Net Awards"love letter about the 43 hours i spent listening to giriboy in 2020", Ogma Magazine (print) – poetry
2020
"gimme love: for my class of 2020", Peach Mag – poetry"autopsy, but flourished with prayer", Dishsoap Quarterly – hybrid"Mouths are for eating" and "translation of hi how are you it's been a while since we last talked", Hominum Journal – poetry and hybrid"Bride", Bitter Fruit Review – poetry"this house.", Emory Lullwater Review (print) – poetry
2019
"Jomojeon", Entropy – cnf
videos
reading translation of Lee Hyemi's "solitary confinement in dancing" and sharing analysis of other translation at Chogwa's Issue 7 readingreading "gimme love: for my class of 2020", "Love Turns My Thumb Green", "Bride" and "translation of hi how are you it's been a while since we last talked" at Peach Mag Present s05e01reading "this house." at Afro Puff Chronicles' Socially Distant But Closer Than Ever Open Micreading "Bride", "this house.", "autopsy, but flourished with prayer", and "the daughter returns to the window" at Gaia Rajan's BIPOC Teen Poetry Readingreading excerpts from "Original Sin" at 2020 Nation YoungArts Week
honors
2021 Best of the Net nominee2020 National YoungArts Finalist in Creative Nonfiction2019 National YoungArts Merit Winner in Creative Nonfiction+ a handful of regional Scholastic Writing Awards :)
