Sekyo Nam Haines
Born and raised in South Korea, Sekyo Nam Haines immigrated to the U.S. in 1973 as a registered nurse. She received her BA in American literature and writing at Goddard College Adult Degree Program. She continued her study of English literature at the Harvard Extension School and of poetry with the late Ottone M. Riccio in Boston, MA. Her first published book is entitled Bitter Seasons' Whip: The Translated Poems of Lee Yuk Sa (Tolsun Books, 2022). Her poems have appeared in Constellations, Off the Coast, and Lily Poetry Review. Her translations of Korean poetry by Cho Ji Hoon have appeared in Interim, Asymptote’s translation Tuesday blog, Guernica Magazine, and Hayden’s Ferry Review. Sekyo lives in Cambridge.
