Cho, Haeyeon

Haeyeon Cho, whose poem “The Citizenship Test” was selected as the winner of the 2010 Bishop Prize in Verse, was born in Seoul, Korea. Haeyeon moved to the city of Gangneung at age four and has lived there since with her two siblings, her parents, and her paternal grandparents. She is a member of the Class of 2012 at Milton Academy, in Milton, Massachusetts. Her favorite books are Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Atonement, by Ian McEwan; The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger; and Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides. She is a big fan of peppermint stick ice cream, Mika, and the band “of Montreal.” [June 2010]

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