Jenny Wang Medina is a translator and PhD candidate in East Asian languages and cultures at Columbia University in New York City. Her dissertation examines the reinvention of Korean culture in the twenty-first century and questions of ethnicity and transcultural identity. She is the translator of Oh Jung-hee's novella The Bird (Telegram Books, 2006), as well as short stories by Kim Young-ha, Park Min-gyu, Kim Jung-hyuk, and Kim Nam-ch'on.