Yaerim Gen Kwon is a prose writer and literary translator from Seoul, South Korea. Her writing appears in Cream City Review, Reed Magazine, Al Jazeera, and elsewhere. She currently resides in Chicago, Illinois, where she is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Illinois Chicago. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University Bloomington, where she received the Earle J. S. Ho Award for the Teaching of Creative Writing and served as the Editor-in-Chief for Indiana Review.
Her short story won first prize for Literature in 2022, and her novel chapter received the Hegarty Award in 2023, both awarded by the National Society of Arts & Letters Competition. She received various scholarships and fellowships from AWP, Carleton College, Indiana University, University of Illinois Chicago, and New York State Summer Writers Institute. In her former life, she worked in media in Seoul, San Francisco, and Rabat. She is working on her first novel.