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Esther Ra

I am the author of 'book of untranslatable things' (Grayson Books, 2018), which received the 2018 Grayson Books Chapbook Award. My work has also received awards or publication from Rattle, Watershed Review, Exposition Review, Border Crossing, and Consequence Magazine. As a writer, I am deeply interested in the beauty of the ordinary and the space between different cultures.

The Woodcutter and the Angel

Excerpt from the novel Oceans, Elsewhere
Last fall, in my first semester of college, I wrote a collection of poetry. It was a series of poems revolving around an ancient Korean fairytale about a woodcutter and his wife. The original story goes like this. When a poor woodcutter saves a fleeing deer from a hunter, the deer tells him a secret in return: there is a magical spring where seonnyeo (the traditional Korean equivalent for angels) come down to bathe. If you steal one of their winged robes, she will be unable to return to the heavens and therefore become your wife.
Novel Excerpts
Issue 27, July 2019
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Esther Ra

I am the author of 'book of untranslatable things' (Grayson Books, 2018), which received the 2018 Grayson Books Chapbook Award. My work has also received awards or publication from Rattle, Watershed Review, Exposition Review, Border Crossing, and Consequence Magazine. As a writer, I am deeply interested in the beauty of the ordinary and the space between different cultures.

The Woodcutter and the Angel

Excerpt from the novel Oceans, Elsewhere
Last fall, in my first semester of college, I wrote a collection of poetry. It was a series of poems revolving around an ancient Korean fairytale about a woodcutter and his wife. The original story goes like this. When a poor woodcutter saves a fleeing deer from a hunter, the deer tells him a secret in return: there is a magical spring where seonnyeo (the traditional Korean equivalent for angels) come down to bathe. If you steal one of their winged robes, she will be unable to return to the heavens and therefore become your wife.
Novel Excerpts
Issue 27, July 2019
Issues Archive
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