Helen Hy Kim

Helen HY. Kim is a freelance writer and translator between Korean to English. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she moved to the US at the age of 12 and spent her formative years in Los Angeles as a 1.5 generation immigrant before continuing her studies on the East Coast. Kim's practice concerns translation as a mode of life and investigates ways bilingualism shapes artistic and literary experience. She is currently translating a collection of modernist short stories from early twentieth-century Korea.