{"id":1658,"date":"2023-09-10T21:28:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T21:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/?post_type=tribe_organizer&#038;p=1658"},"modified":"2023-09-10T21:28:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T21:28:21","slug":"e-j-koh","status":"publish","type":"tribe_organizer","link":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/bio\/e-j-koh\/","title":{"rendered":"E. J. Koh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"book-content\">\n<p><strong>E. J. Koh<\/strong>\u00a0is the author of\u00a0<em>The Magical Language of Others<\/em>, which won a Washington State Book Award, Pacific Northwest Book Award, and Association for Asian American Studies Book Award, and was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. Koh is also the author of the poetry collection\u00a0<em>A Lesser Love<\/em>, a Pleiades Press Editors Prize for Poetry winner. Koh\u2019s work has appeared in\u00a0<em>AGNI<\/em>, the\u00a0<em>Atlantic<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Boston Review<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Poetry<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Slate<\/em>,\u00a0<em>World Literature Today<\/em>, and elsewhere. Koh earned her MFA at Columbia University and her PhD at the University of Washington, and has received National Endowment for the Arts and MacDowell fellowships. She lives in Seattle, Washington. Her new novel is\u00a0<em>The Liberators.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1659\" src=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/9781959030157-20230908204636-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"book cover THE LIBERATORS by E. J. Koh featuring paper cut outs of white birds flying in paper cut outs of orange flames\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/9781959030157-20230908204636-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/9781959030157-20230908204636-662x1024.jpg 662w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/9781959030157-20230908204636-768x1188.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/9781959030157-20230908204636-575x889.jpg 575w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/9781959030157-20230908204636-380x588.jpg 380w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/9781959030157-20230908204636.jpg 776w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"book-related uk-margin-bottom\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E. J. Koh\u00a0is the author of\u00a0The Magical Language of Others, which won a Washington State Book Award, Pacific Northwest Book Award, and Association for Asian American Studies Book Award, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1660,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_organizer"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1658\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}