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THIS IS KYO LEE

Kyo Lee (she) is a Korean Canadian student and writer from Waterloo, Ontario.She
is the youngest winner of the CBC Poetry Prize and youngest finalist for the RBC
Bronwen Wallace Award. Her literature also appears in Narrative, Nimrod, Prism,
The Forge, and This Magazine, among others.Her debut poetry collection i cut my
tongue on a broken country will be published by Arsenal Pulp Press in March,
2025.Her YouTube recommendations include the Green brothers, Jannabi playlists,
and five second memes she doesn't want to watch but will click on anyway. She
loves colourful skies, summer peaches, and oceans.

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KYO WROTE A BOOK

Lotus flowers, youthful hunger, and other temporary beauties intertwine to tell
this coming-of-age story, a set of pulsating poems that move toward a distant
memory or a flaming future.Kyo Lee's intimate debut poetry collection is
simultaneously a vulnerable confession and a micro study of macro topics
including lineage, family, war, and hope. i cut my tongue on a broken country
explores the Asian American diaspora, girlhood, and the relationships between
and within them, pushing and pulling on the boundaries of identity and language
like a story trying to tell itself.i cut my tongue on a broken country documents
a search for love. It's a eulogy for the things we gave up to get here. It's an
ode to tenderness. It blossoms and bleeds in your hands.

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KYO WROTE OTHER THINGS


SELECT POEMS

Lotus Flower Blooming into Breasts, CBC Books (2023)Why I Have Decided to Live,
Narrative (2024)Parallel & Fish Market Wedding, Nimrod (Refuge, Vol. 67 No. 2,
2024)diasporic dissonance, Writer's Trust (2023)

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JUDGE KYO'S MUSIC TASTE



Consider this playlist proof that there are infinite ways to give & recieve the
same story. Consider it an attempt to translate what could not be held with
language alone. Consider it something fun I did instead of studying
calculus.Consider how the curation and order of the songs is a poem of its own,
a story with its own heart synching to the collection's separate heartbeat. (I
still listen to it on shuffle.)