Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Ward Toward from the Yale Series of Younger Poets and the translator of The Hell of That Star by Kim Hyesoon, forthcoming with Wesleyan University Press. A former physics teacher at a large public school, she also taught creative writing as a lecturer or writer-in-residence at UC San Diego, Wellesley College, and Kenyon College. Ok will teach both graduate and undergraduate poetry workshops this year.