Dabin Jeong’s research interests include literary translation, postcolonial poetics, Asian/American poetry, and ekphrastic practices in Eastern and Western poetry. At present, their research focuses on body horror as a feminist subversion in East Asian feminist literature.
Dabin Jeong (they/them) is a poet and a literary translator from Seoul, South Korea. They are the author of a chapbook Swallow (Small Harbor Publishing, 2025) and hold an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa. Their works appeared or are forthcoming in A Public Space, The Journal, Pinch, Diode Poetry Journal, Quarterly West, Modern Poetry in Translation, and the Southern Review.