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Jihyun Yun is a Korean-American poet, freelance writer & Fulbright Research Fellow.
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A winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, her full length collection SOME ARE ALWAYS HUNGRY was published by The University of Nebraska Press in September 2020.
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She received her BA in Psychology from UC Davis, and her MFA from New York University where she was a fully funded fellow. She is currently a 2021-2023 Lighthouse Book Project Fellow.
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Originally from California, she now resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan where she is working on her first YA novel.
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Jihyun is represented by Serene Hakim and Annie Hwang @ Ayesha Pande Literary
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