kaylee young-eun jeong
is from Oregon and lives in New York, where she is the ‘25-27 Lillian Vernon Fellow at NYU’s MFA program in creative writing.Her poetry appears in The Adroit Journal, ONLY POEMS, Best New Poets, AGNI, and Pleiades, among others, and has been supported by fellowships and scholarships from Oregon Literary Arts, Mineral Arts & Residencies, UCross Foundation, and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.She was born on a Wednesday and loves everything.
SELECT WORK ONLINE“Garage” & “Real Guitar” - The Adroit Journal
"Death with Dignity" & "Religion of Love" - The Adroit Journal
"Self Portrait as Patron Saint of DayQuil" - Honey Literary
"Helplessness' Child" - Tinderbox Poetry Journal
“Last Spring”, “Love Story of Beginning and End”, “After the Flood”, & “Translation Theory” - ONLY POEMS
"Crayon Self-Portrait as House on Fire" - Shenandoah
"Closing" - The Columbia Review
"It's for the Best" - 4x4 Magazine, vol. X
"Things I Learned in Seventh Grade" - Frontier Poetry
"In a Dream I Watch UFC With You" - Maudlin House
"Andalusia, 2009" - Quarto MagazineWORK IN PRINT"Cliff Hanger" - Beloit Poetry Journal (forthcoming)
"Videos of the Moon" - AGNI, issue 103
“Second Self” - Pleiades, 45.1
“Talking to Myself at Caesar’s Palace Las Vegas” - Poet Lore, Winter/Spring 2025
"Dream of Return" - Salt Hill Journal, issue 53INTERVIEWS2025 Oregon Literary Fellowship Q&A - Literary Arts
Poet of the Week Interview - Brooklyn Poets
Interview with Shannan Mann and Karan Kapoor - ONLY POEMSHONORSArtist in Residence, UCross Foundation 2025
Rona Jaffe Foundation Participant, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference 2025
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
