Saehee Cho is a writer and cook.
Her poetry and fiction have been published in Tierra Adentro, Entropy, Eleven Eleven, Sidebrow, and Black Clock. She is a regular contributor to Enter>Text, an on-going performance series interested in the expansive an immersive experience of literature.
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Education
MFA, Creative Writing, 2010
California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, California
Thesis: We Are Bodies, Bodies Break
• Book length collection of short stories
Thesis Advisors: Christine Wertheim, Janet Sarbanes, Matias Viegener
BA, Literature and Writing, 2007
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, California
Publications
YES FEMMES, Issue One, March 2017
Editor: Sam Cohen
“Mother, Father, Sister"
Poetry
Tierra Adentro Vol 201, March 2015
Editor: René López Villamar
Translator: Ángel Valenzuela
“The Crane Wife” (Spanish)
Fiction
January 2015
Enter>Text>The Book 3 Years
Editor, Jen Hutton
“Salt Flats”
Poetry/Performance
August 2013
Black Clock, Issue #17
Editor, Steve Erickson
“Business Trip”
Fiction
April 2014
Snacks Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue 1
Editor: Alexander Barrett
“Pith”
Fiction
February 2013
Out Of Nothing, Issue # 6
Editors, Janice Lee, Joe Milazzo, Eric Lindley
“Little Armenia”
Fiction
February 2013
RECAPS, February 2013 Issue
Editor, Martabel Wasserman
“Pillow Talk”
Fiction
July 2012
Eleven Eleven, Issue # 13
Editor, Maggie Heaps
“Little Armenia”
“Tread”
Poetry
February 2012
Sidebrow, White Horse Anthology
Editors, Jason Snyder, John Cleary, Kristine Leja
“Puppeteer”
Fiction
February 2012
HTML GIANT, Book Reviews
Editor, Janice Lee
“Snowflake & Different Streets” By Eileen Myles, book review
Review
http://htmlgiant.com/reviews/snowflake-and-different-streets/
January 2012
HTML GIANT, Book Reviews
Editor, Janice Lee
Review
“Mouth: Eats Color” by Sawako Nakayasu, book review
http://htmlgiant.com/reviews/mouth-eats-color/
September 2011
PANK, Issue 6.11
Editor, Roxane Gay
“Units of Measurement”
Fiction
August 2011
Out of Nothing, Issue # 5
Editors, Janice Lee, Joe Milazzo, Eric Lindley
“Manifesto : Underwear Bomber : On Violence in Los Angeles”
Fiction, in collaboration with Marcus Civin
http://www.outofnothing.org/711/civin-cho.html
July 2011
BAP, Volume 6 Issue 16, Nature Issue
Editor, Jennifer Bal
“A Boy Reading In The Woods”
Fiction
March 2011
Sidebrow, White Horse Project
Editors, Jason Snyder, John Cleary, Kristine Leja
“Puppeteer”
Fiction
February 2011
decomP Online Journal
Editors: Jason Jordan
“Red Velvet”
Fiction
January 2009
Out of Nothing, Issue # 3
Editors, Janice Lee, Joe Milazzo, Laura Vena, Eric Lindley
“Melancholy”
Fiction
Performance/Curatorial/Other
2012-2015
Contributor/Performer
Enter>Text Literary Performance Series
Curators: Henry Hoke, Marco Di Domenico
• Contributor to Enter>Text: an on-going performance series interested in an expansive and immersive experience of literature
• Performances:
“In Trees”
“Salt Flats”
“Projections/Predictions”
“Slow, Procedural”
April 2013
Guest Curator
Out of Nothing: Translation Is Meditation is Transmittance is Conversation
Editor: Janice Lee
• A month-long curatorial experiment around the subject of Translation, featuring work from Douglas Kearney, Marcus Civin, Tom Trudgeon, Felipe W.Martinez, Bruna Mori, Samantha Cohen, Analisa Raya-Flores, Christina Wood and Sean Sullivan
2013--
Co-host with Analisa Raya-Flores
Unkindest Cut, A Reading Series
• Bi-monthly Los Angeles based reading series featuring fiction and poetry
October 2012
Curator
Les Figues Benefit Auction
Los Angeles, CA
2012
Finalist
White Pine Press, Marie Alexander Series
Editor: Robert Alexander, Nickole Brown
• Runner up for the White Pine Press poetry book contest
May 2010
Performer, in collaboration with Marcus Civin
Area Sneaks
LA><ART
Curators: Joseph Mosconi & Rita Gonzalez
“Manifesto: The Underwear Bomber”
2010
Contributor
Not Content-Unnatural Acts
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Curator: Jennifer Karmin
September 2008-Present
Intern
Les Figues Press
Los Angeles, CA
Supervisor: Teresa Carmody, co-director of Les Figues Press
December 2006
Curator and Organizer
Translations: An Experimental Writing Exhibition
San Diego, California
