Joon-Li Kim

Joon-Li Kim is a freelance writer, editor, and translator. She was a judge for the American Literary Translators Association’s 2024 National Translation Award in Prose. Her co-translation with Doo-Sun Ryu of No Hand Held Mine, a compilation of stories by Kim Soom, was published by Rutgers University Press in 2025. Her writing has appeared in The Georgia Review and On the Seawall. She has received grants from the Literature Translation Institute of Korea and the Daesan Foundation.