Emily reads from her new book, Find Me as the Creature I Am. A book full of tenderness and violence, longing and love. Ranging from inherited family tales, to meditations on the body, to the ways animals display love and grief alike, Emily Jungmin Yoon holds a mirror up to humanity to show that we are animal, too. In poems full of wonder and want, she showcases our tendencies to fight or fly, act with affection and cruelty, and ultimately, overflow with life itself.
Emily Jungmin Yoon is an Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.