NEW POETRY COLLECTION:
The Wet Hex
Sun Yung Shin calls her readers into the unknown now-future of the human species, an underworld museum of births, deaths, evolutions, and extinctions.
Personal and environmental violations form the backdrop against which Sun Yung Shin examines questions of grievability, violence, and responsibility in The Wet Hex. Incorporating sources such as her own archival immigration documents, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Christopher Columbus’s journals, and traditional Korean burial rituals, Shin explores the ways that lives are weighed and bartered. Smashing the hierarchies of god and humanity, heaven and hell, in favor of indigenous Korean shamanism and animism, The Wet Hex layers an apocalyptic revision of nineteenth-century imagery of the sublime over the present, conjuring a reality at once beautiful and terrible.
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NEW POETRY COLLECTION:

Sun Yung Shin calls her readers into the unknown now-future of the human species, an underworld museum of births, deaths, evolutions, and extinctions.
Personal and environmental violations form the backdrop against which Sun Yung Shin examines questions of grievability, violence, and responsibility in The Wet Hex. Incorporating sources such as her own archival immigration documents, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Christopher Columbus’s journals, and traditional Korean burial rituals, Shin explores the ways that lives are weighed and bartered. Smashing the hierarchies of god and humanity, heaven and hell, in favor of indigenous Korean shamanism and animism, The Wet Hex layers an apocalyptic revision of nineteenth-century imagery of the sublime over the present, conjuring a reality at once beautiful and terrible.
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books of poetry/essays:
Unbearable Splendor
October 2016
Coffee House Press
Rough, and Savage
August 2012
Coffee House Press
Skirt Full of Black
April 2007
Coffee House Press
anthologies:
What We Hunger For: Refugee and Immigrant Stories about Food and Family
May 2021
Minnesota Historical Society Press
A Good Time For The Truth: Race in Minnesota
April 2016
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption
2020
University of Minnesota Press
children’s literature:
Where We Come From
Authors: Diane Wilson, Sun Yung Shin, Shannon Gibney, John Coy
Illustrator: Dion MBD
October 2022 Lerner Books
Cooper's Lesson
Illustrated by Kim Cogan
2015 Lee & Low Books
books of poetry/essays:
Unbearable Splendor
October 2016
Coffee House Press
Rough, and Savage
August 2012
Coffee House Press
Skirt Full of Black
April 2007
Coffee House Press
anthologies:
What We Hunger For: Refugee and Immigrant Stories about Food and Family
May 2021
Minnesota Historical Society Press
A Good Time For The Truth: Race in Minnesota
April 2016
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption
2020
University of Minnesota Press
children’s literature:
Where We Come From
Authors: Diane Wilson, Sun Yung Shin, Shannon Gibney, John Coy
Illustrator: Dion MBD
October 2022 Lerner Books
Cooper's Lesson
Illustrated by Kim Cogan
2015 Lee & Low Books