Suphil Lee Park is the author of the poetry collection, Present Tense Complex, winner of the 2020 Marystina Santiestevan Prize (Conduit Books & Ephemera 2021). She spent more than half her life all over the Korean peninsula before landing in the American Northeast. Her poems and short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in New England Review, the New Republic, Poetry Daily, and the Iowa Review, among many others. Most recently she received a third prize in the Writer's Digest short short story competition and won the 2021 Indiana Review Fiction Prize.

Other poems by Suphil Lee Park in Verse Daily:
April 27, 2021:   "In the Head Full of Dead Letters" "Borrowed light alone can't make out..."

Books by Suphil Lee Park:

Other poems on the web by Suphil Lee Park:
"Friend, Whatever You're Thinking"
Two poems
"There's Only So Much Room"
"Another Day Dead From Having Been Awake Too Long"
"Subtraction"
"Herewith"
"Far Too Long Nothing Has Come"
"At 4 a.m. Snow"
"From the Waterfront the Horizon Always is a You"
"Mise-en-Scène"
"At This Hour of Long Sky"

Suphil Lee Park's Website.

About Present Tense Complex:

"From the first phrase of Present Tense Complex, 'the tongue of this impulse to race to rest,' Suphil Lee Park's poems investigate, tear at, and adore physical and emotional dislocations, separations, and losses. She has a way of combining tones that should never fit together—lush austerity, calm fury—even peaceful unrest. I'd even say that she seems at ease...with unease, in large part because she recognizes her own nature and is not afraid to give her poems over to it: '[e]nter here—where I'm reaching / for my grief as for a first lover's crotch.' There is an open struggle with being here, with the frissons she embodies and the vibrations of a self trying to figure out how to resonate with the world."
—Bob Hicok