kaylee young-eun jeong
is from Oregon. She is the ‘25-27 Lillian Vernon Fellow at NYU’s MFA program in creative writing. Her poetry appears in or is forthcoming from The Adroit Journal, ONLY POEMS, Best New Poets, Pleiades, and Poet Lore, among others, and has been supported by Oregon Literary Arts, Mineral Arts & Residencies, Fine Arts Work Center, and Brooklyn Poets.She was born on a Wednesday and loves everything.
"Poems"2025
“Garage” & “Real Guitar” - The Adroit Journal (forthcoming)
“Talking to Myself at Caesar’s Palace Las Vegas” - Poet Lore (forthcoming)
“Second Self” - Pleiades (forthcoming)
"Dream of Return" - Salt Hill Journal (forthcoming)2024
"Death with Dignity" & "Religion of Love" - The Adroit Journal
"Self Portrait as Patron Saint of DayQuil" - Honey Literary
"Ars Poetica as Things I Wanted to Tell You" & "Accident Report" - Diode Poetry Journal
"Helplessness' Child" - Tinderbox Poetry Journal
“Last Spring”, “Love Story of Beginning and End”, “After the Flood”, & “Translation Theory” - ONLY POEMS2023
"Crayon Self-Portrait as House on Fire" - Shenandoah
"Closing" - The Columbia Review
"It's for the Best" - 4x4 Magazine, vol. X
"Four Stories About My Body" - COUNTERCLOCK Journal
"Things I Learned in Seventh Grade" - Frontier Poetry2022 & prior
"In a Dream I Watch UFC With You" - Maudlin House
"Second Date" - Diode Poetry Journal, Lumiere Review
"Andalusia, 2009" - Quarto MagazineInterviews
Poet of the Week Interview - Brooklyn Poets
Interview with Shannan Mann and Karan Kapoor - ONLY POEMSHonors
Finalist, The Adroit Journal Djanikian Scholars 2025
Recipient, 2025 Oregon Literary Fellowship
Finalist, Pleiades Prufer Prize for Poetry 2024
Finalist & Contributor, Best New Poets 2024
Runner-up, The Adroit Journal Adroit Prize for Poetry 2024
2024-25 Tahoma Literary Review Fellow, Mineral School Artist Residency
