Sophie Bowman is a PhD student at the University of Toronto where she studies and translates Korean literature. She is part of the Smoking Tigers complaint of literary translators and Heung Coalition. Her translations include Kim Bo-Young’s I’m Waiting for You and Other Stories (HarperVoyager, 2021) with fellow Tiger Sung Ryu, Looking Back Life Was Beautiful by Grandpa Chan and Grandma Marina of @drawings_for_my_grandchildren Instagram fame, and stories published in Clarkesworld, Guernica, Koreana, and Korean Literature Now magazines.