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Joon-Li Kim was born in South Korea and grew up in the American Midwest. She holds a BA in psychology from Yale University and an MA in English and creative writing from New York University. She is a freelance writer and an editor of academic research papers, novels, and memoirs. Joon-Li was a judge for the 2024 National Translation Award in Prose for the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) and moderated a panel on “Beyond Language Pairs: Multilingualism in Translation” at the 2024 ALTA conference.