Jihyun Yun

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 …