Selected Publications & Recognitions
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Hocus Pocus Bogus Locus Focus. Poems by Jack Saebyok Jung. Published by Black Square Editions.
(Forthcoming) Lady No by Kim Hyesoon. Translated by Jack Saebyok Jung. To be Published by Ecco Press. Expected by Spring 2026.
Yi Sang: Selected Works. Published by Wave Books. Ed. Don Mee Choi. Trans. Jack Jung, Sawako Nakayasu, Don Mee Choi, Joyelle McSweeney. September 2020.
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Inner Light by Jack Jung. The Margins, Asian American Writer’s Workshop, 20 February 2024.
Piano Lessons by Jack Saebyok Jung. The Ex-Puritan, Issue 63: Fall 2023.
Airing by Jack Jung. The Surging Tide. Issue 10. Fall 2023.
To My Street by Jack Jung. The Dodge. Summer 2023.
Outside Butler, Missouri by Jack Jung. Afternoon Visitor, Issue 9, 2023.
Wandering Stars by Jack Jung. Ghost City Press, 27 August 2022.
Pitch by Jack Jung. Send Me Press, July 2022.
Park Bench by Jack Jung. Poetry, Vol. 220, No. 1, April 2022, pp. 34-35.
I Come from a Country, Lepidoptera by Jack Jung. The Margins, 11 January 2022.
Sukiyaki by Jack Jung. Denver Quarterly, Vol. 55, No. 4, 2021.
Carnival by Jack Jung. Leavings. Issue 2.5. 21 August 2021.
Flower & The Informant by Jack Jung. Touch the Donkey, Issue 30, July 2021.
Hammer, My Jawbone Looks Like, Orion’s Song I & II by Jack Jung. TAGVVERK, 18 May 2021.
Lazarus by Jack Jung. Poetry Northwest, April 2021.
Gone Boy by Jack Jung. Bennington Review, Issue Nine, Summer 2021.
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Destruction of Texts by Yi Sang, translated by Jack Jung. Modern Poetry in Translation, No. 2, August 2024.
Three Poems by Heeum translated by Jack Jung. New England Review, Vol. 45, No. 2, 2024.
Even if I Perish Living on Geumgan Mountain: Selected Poems of Shin Daechul, translated by Jack Jung. The Contemporary Poetry Archive, Yonsei University, E-book, 19 July 2024.
A Small Hand Grasped: Selected Poems of Yun Dong-ju, translated by Jack Jung. The Contemporary Poetry Archive, Yonsei University, E-book, 23 January 2024.
Three Proems by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Jack Jung. The Poetry Project Newsletter, #274, Fall 2023.
Decorum by Yi Sang, translated by Jack Jung. The Offing, 19 September 2023.
Early Spring Sketches by Yi Sang, translated by Jack Jung. The Paris Review, 28 August 2023.
Privilege of Bleeding by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Jack Jung. The Drift, Issue 10, 12 July 2023.
From Thus Spoke n’t by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Jack Jung. Guernica Magazine, 5 July 2023.
Brazier, Morning, Family, Street Outside Street by Yi Sang, translated by Jack Jung. BOMB Magazine, Issue 153, Fall 2020.
Mirror & I WED A TOY BRIDE by Yi Sang, translated by Jack Jung. The Iowa Review, Vol. 50, Issue 2, Fall 2020, pp. 122-124.
Poems of Yi Sang & Poems of Song Seunghwan, curated by Don Mee Choi, translated by Jack Jung. Chicago Review, Vol. 64 Issue 5/Vol. 65 Issue 1, 2021.
Tokyo Reeks of Gasoline by Yi Sang, translated by Jack Jung. The Paris Review, December 2020.
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Story of Yi Sang Translation: On the Production and Reception of "Yi Sang: Selected Works" (Essay in Korean) by Jack Jung. Yi Sang Review, Vol. 21, 2024.
Mirrors of Ruin: Kim Hyesoon, Don Mee Choi, and the Reflection of Twoness in Poetry and Translation by Jack Jung. Poetry Society of America, Visiting Poets Series, 2024.
Calling Ghost: On Kim Sowol, Translation, and the Soul of Poetry by Jack Jung. Annulet: A Journal of Poetics, Issue 2, Winter 2021.
Jack Jung on Yi Sang by Jack Jung. Poetry Society of America, Feature: In Their Own Words, 2020.
My Battle Against Myself: An Interview with Nurse and Mother Susan Jung by Jack Jung. The Margins, Asian American Writer’s Workshop, 24 May 2021.
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“Perhaps they regard us as barbarians at the gates” by Jina Moore Ngarambe and Jack Jung. Guernica Magazine, 12 July 2023.
The Translator Relay: Jack Jung. Written Interview with WWB Daily. Words Without Borders, December 3, 2020.
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2024 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship
2021 MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of Literary Work
2021 Shortlisted for ALTA Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize
2020 Big Other Book Awards for Translation
2017-2018 Truman Capote Fellowship