In the first week of my internship with RH Korea, I have worked myself a trail of translations: story books, chapter books, poetry, emails. We use language so unconsciously in every other thing we do, but in trying to contextualize meaning in another tongue, language has become enigmatic. Here are my attempts to pick language…

Last summer, I found my absolute favorite novel. The dystopian beauty that is Yōko Ogawa’s The Memory Police enraptured my delight in science fiction, and frankly, literature. It was unreally romantic, twisting, unreal. It is difficult to imagine finding something I could love more than the single pdf of this novel, annotated black at the…

From the first age I learned what genres were, I was certain that nonfiction was not my favorite. To me, it seemed impossibly boring. Especially when I had already been charmed by fairy tales and fantasy, any writing from reality seemed all too mundane in comparison. Admittedly, within a few short years, novels of realistic…

[Gibson Girl’s] is a pastiche poem I’ve written in the style of E. E. Cummings’ [Buffalo Bill’s]. I was stunned of sorts by the unique form, illuminating diction, and allusive imagery of the original poem, which I have tried to emulate in my own. [Gibson Girl’s] speaks to the life of 1900s It girl Evelyn…

Biographical Information and Seminal Works F. Scott Fitzgerald was born Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, and lived from 1896 to 1940 as an essayist, screenwriter, short-story writer, and most famously, as a novelist. He fell in love with socialite Zelda Sayre, and they were eventually married. During his lifetime, he finished four novels: This Side of…

This summer had been one of the most wonderful of my lives. I was with family, and sun, and literature. I met a friend during my summer program at Stanford. Her name is Erika and she lives in Hong Kong. We were one of the only ones not living in the States, joining at odd…

Dostoevsky: Life, Themes, and Style Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in November of 1821 in Czarist Russia. He lost both his parents by the time he was 18, and began his literary career a few years afterwards. Dostoevsky married twice and had four children before his death in 1881. While many of his…

This post is the first in my series of Reflections on Summer. I had the opportunity to participate in Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Institutes’ Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, and Poetry course this July, and will be reflecting on my learning and rediscovered passion for writing.  In this post, I am sharing my artist statement as an overarching…

Girls Will Code’s main initiative has always been focused on encouraging young learners’ interest and pursuit of STEM related passions. To accomplish this goal, we have been dedicated to organizing new learning opportunities and pathways, as well as continuing to inspire young minds. However, as a result of the pandemic, our team was faced with…

Decades ago, reading may have been a more popular pastime. Instead of getting speared off a horse or sewing for a family of ten, stories offered wonderful adventures from the comfort of one’s home. But today, unfortunately, reading seems to have earned itself a reputation for being boring—nowadays, anything reading can do, something else can…