Books*

Published by Tinderbox Editions, 2021

Recent Interviews

Cream City Review

Searching Beneath the Stars: An Interview with Bo Hee Moon

Thank you so much to Hazel Ramos at Cream City Review for interviewing me and Angela Voras-Hills (Associate Editor at Cream City Review), for including me and connecting with me for this interview.

Recent publications*

swamp pink

"Year of the Yin Black Rabbit"

 "Birth Father 아버지 (abeoji): Invitation to Tea"

Thank you Gary Jackson (Poetry Editor) and Jonathan Bohr Heinen (Managing Editor)!

Poetry

"Sacrifice: I Was Named by the Orphanage"

Thank you Adrian Matejka (Editor), Lindsay Garbutt (Senior Editor), Holly Amos (Associate Editor), and Angela Flores (Assistant Editor)!

AGNI

"Letters to Omma—Reunion"

Thank you Jennifer Kwon Dobbs and Lee Herrick as well as Bill Pierce (Coeditor) and Shuchi Saraswat (Senior Editor) for including my poem in Afterlives: An AGNI Portfolio of Asian Adoptee Diaspora Writing.

Sweet Tree Review

Letters to my Omma

The Single Unwed Mothers’ House

Thank you Jesse Ewing-Frable (Founder, Editor-In-Chief) and Hannah Newman (Founder, Editor-In-Chief) for publishing my poems in Sweet Tree Review. This volume (volume 8) is about fragility and wildness.

Cream City Review

“Generosity”

“Korean Little Girl”

Thank you, Camilla Jiyun Nam Lee (Editor in Chief), Seth Copeland (Poetry Editor), and Korey Hurni (Poetry Editor).

The Margins

Gijesa (기제사): November 10, 1992

Thank you, Dana Isokawa (Editor in Chief), Emily Jungmin Yoon (Poetry Editor), and Ayesha Raees (Assistant Poetry Editor).

Salt Hill

“The Body After Trauma – Innocence”

Thank you, Si Yon Kim (Editor-in-Chief), Ocean Noah(Editor-in-Chief), Jasmine Tabor (Editor-in-Chief), and Kimberly Stuart (Poetry Editor).

Tupelo Quarterly

My Omma’s Shame

Thank you to the poetry editors and Kristina Marie Darling (Editor-in-Chief).

RADAR POETRY

Desire for Korea

What Grows in South Korea

Thank you to Rachel Marie Patterson and Dara-Lyn Shrager (Editors).

ZONE 3

“The Body After Trauma—Desire”

“The Body After Trauma—Transformation”

Thank you to Etenia Mullins (Assistant Poetry Editor), Stephanie Dugger (Poetry Editor), and Amy Wright (Senior Editor).

poems*

Cutbank

“Cats in Korea”

diode

“Asian Pear”

“Learning Korean”

“Luck of the Rabbit & Blood Type AB”

“Potbelly”

“Second New Moon after Winter Solstice”

foundry

“Daddy’s Adopted Korean ‘Geisha’ Girl”

jellyfish

“Rice Cake Idioms”

Mascara Literary review

“Confessions of an Adopted Asian American”


Pretty Owl Poetry

“An Adopted Korean Girl Learns about Beating in Korea”

“An Adopted Korean Girl Visits the COEX Aquarium, a Temple, and Korean BBQ in Gangham” 


Sweet Tree Review

“Halmoni"

“Practice for Living”

Radar

“An Adopted Korean Girl’s Good Daddy”

“An Adopted Korean Girl’s New Year’s Wish for her Birth Mother”


Ruth + Moth

“What is Power for an Adopted Korean Girl?”

Up the Staircase Quarterly

“An Adopted Korean Girl's Dog”

“K-JAP: (adopted) Korean Jewish American Princess”


Vinyl

“An Adopted Korean Girl’s Babies in a South Korean Babies’ Home”


Winter Tangerine

“On Becoming a Second Wife”

essays*

Cha Journal

“Familial Love in 𝑂𝑚𝑚𝑎, 𝑆𝑒𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝐽𝑜𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝐴𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑠”

*Note: Bo Hee Moon previously published under a different name.