E J Koh E. J. Koh is the author of The Magical Language of Others, a Washington State Book Award Winner, Pacific Northwest Book Award Winner, Association of Asian American Studies Book Award Winner, and PEN Open Book Award Longlist Koh is also the author of the poetry collection A Lesser Love, a Pleiades Editors Prize for Poetry Winner. Koh's work has appeared in AGNI, The Atlantic, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetry, Slate, World Literature Today, and elsewhere. Koh earned her MFA at Columbia University, her PhD at University of Washington, and has received the National Endowment of the Arts and MacDowell fellowships. She lives in Seattle, Washington. Read More Read Less