Dabin Jeong

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Dabin Jeong

PhD Student in Comparative Literature, International Writers Track
Dean’s Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Arts&Sciences
Graduate Certificate in Translation Studies
B.A. from Bennington College
M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry) from The University of Iowa
M.F.A. in Literary Translation from The University of Iowa
research interests:
  • Literary Translation
  • Ekphrastic Poetry
  • Asian/American Poetics
  • Poetry in Translation
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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.

Swallow (poetry chapbook), Small Harbor Publishing, June 2025 

Eternity, Quarterly West. Issue 111, 2024 

Lightflies, The Offing, 2025 

Two poems from ‘Battleground’, Modern Poetry in Translation, Presently Proximal Person: Focus on Experimental Translations, 2025