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March 2023

“you can write what you want, but let us live a little more beautifully the second time": Jihyun Yun in conversation with Nicole Lachat

Our Book Prize Coordinator Nicole Lachat recently spoke with Jihyun Yun about her Raz Shumaker Book Prize-winning poetry collection. Please enjoy this excellent conversation!

Jihyun Yun’s debut collection, Some Are Always Hungry, was the winning manuscript of the Raz Shumaker Prize in Poetry in 2019 and was published through University of Nebraska Press in 2020.

NICOLE LACHAT: Hello, Jihyun! I have the good fortune of calling you a friend. But for those who don’t know you, can you tell us how you came to poetry? 

JIHYUN YUN: This isn’t the most romantic story, but I tripped and fell into poetry in my junior year at UC Davis. I was having a science heavy quarter and wanted to round it out with a creative class. Fiction was full, so I enrolled in the poetry workshop knowing absolutely nothing about it.