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Rosanna Young Oh

Rosanna Young Oh is a Korean American  poet and essayist who was born in Daejeon, Korea, and grew up on Long  Island. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Best New Poets, Harvard Review Online, Blackbird, and 32 Poems. A graduate of Yale, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she lives and writes in New York.

Portrait courtesy of Pete Coco, photographer

Books

The Corrected Version

forthcoming March 2023

At its heart, Rosanna Young Oh’s debut collection of poems, The Corrected Version,  is an immigrant narrative that ponders what it means to be an American.  Who or what do we leave behind when we move to a new country? Who or  what do we take with us? Traveling through Korean folklore, paintings,  Long Island, a family grocery store, and Buddhism, the book meditates on  the process of making meaning out of the lives we create for  ourselves—a task that has the speaker relentlessly questioning,  investigating, erasing, and rewriting the stories she ultimately chooses  to inherit as her own. A book about survival, it is also a journey made  gentle by moments of love and compassion.

The Corrected Version
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