Author: Jihyun Yun
Alternate names: Yun, Esther; Yun, Jihyun; 윤지현
Bio: Jihyun Yun (she/her) is a USA Today bestselling author from the San Francisco Bay Area.

A winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, her full length poetry collection ***Some are always hungry*** was published by The University of Nebraska Press in September 2020. Her debut young adult novel ***And the river drags her down*** was released with Knopf BFYR/ Penguin Random House (US) and Rock The Boat/ OneWorld (UK) in fall, 2025.

A recipient of various grants and fellowships, she received her BA in Psychology from UC Davis, and her MFA from New York University. Originally from California, she now resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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