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November 4th

SWWIM Every Day
by Stine An, (tr. of Yoo Heekyung)
 
 

Welcome to SWWIM Every Day’s preview coverage of Miami Book Fair (MBF) 2025! We’ve been partnering with MBF since 2020 to bring you stimulating, inspiring work. From November 3 to 14, watch daily features on a selection of poets, just a glimpse of the incredible authors participating in this year’s MBF, the nation’s largest gathering of writers and readers of all ages. For more information about these and other authors, visit miamibookfaironline.com, follow @miamibookfair on Instagram and X, and join the conversation with #miamibookfair2025.

Stine An will read at the Miami Book Fair on Saturday, November 22, at 2:30 p.m. Location: Building 8, Third Floor, Room 8303.

Stine An is a Korean poet, translator, and performer in NYC whose work explores diasporic poetics, experimental translation, and virtual performance. Her poems and translations appear in Best Literary Translations, Poem-a-Day, Poetry Daily, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. A 2024 NEA Translation Fellow and 2022–2023 Emerge—Surface—Be Fellow at The Poetry Project, Stine is the author of S_MMER CR_SH (Sarabande Books, 2025) and the translator of Today’s Morning Vocabulary by Yoo Heekyung (Zephyr Press, 2025). Her debut poetry collection B-Dragon Suite was a winner of the 2023 Nightboat Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from Nightboat Books.

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