Suphil Lee Park is a bilingual writer who was born and grew up in South Korea. Her name 수필 리 박 consists of Chinese characters, 秀筆 李 朴, each of which means "outstanding," "writing brush," "plum tree," and "silver magnolia." A recent finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize, she graduated from New York University with a BA in English and from the University of Texas at Austin with an MFA in Poetry (New Writers Project). Her poems appear in Global Poetry Anthology, Ploughshares, and the Massachusetts Review, among many others. She also writes fiction and nonfiction, some of which appear in J Journal, Storm Cellar, and the Iowa Review.