Lizzie Buehler***

Lizzie Buehler is an author and translator from Korean and German.Her novel The Obsessed was published by Putnam in July 2026.She has translated four books from Korean: The Disaster Tourist, Table For One, and Art on Fire, by Yun Ko-eun, and Korean Teachers by Seo Su-jin. Her translation of The Disaster Tourist won the 2021 CWA Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation and was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award.Her short translations and original writing have been published in Lit Hub, Asymptote, The Massachusetts Review, Azalea, and Litro, among others.She studied comparative literature at Princeton and Harvard and holds an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa, where she was an Iowa Arts Scholar.She has taught writing and literature at Harvard and St. Joseph's University (Brooklyn).Her writing, translation work, and scholarship have been supported by the American Literary Translators Association, the Daesan Foundation, LTI Korea, and DAAD.She is currently working on a translation of the autofictional lesbian novel-in-texts Pizza Orlando by Clara Umbach.She is represented by Madeline Ticknor at Janklow and Nesbit.Lizzie lives in Philadelphia, where she is in medical school.***The Obsessed
One of Debutiful's Most Anticipated Debuts of 2026
One of Marie Claire's Must-Read Books Coming Out in July 2026
Coverage in Chicago Review of Books, The Millions, Forbes.com, Debutiful, Lit Hub, Booklist (starred review), Tertulia, Publishers Weekly, and PhillyVoice.The Disaster Tourist
One of Refinery29's Best Books of 2020
One of Tor.com's Best Books of 2020
One of Publishers Weekly's Big Indie Books of Fall 2020
One of Entropy's Best Books of 2020
One of Harper's Bazaar's Best Books of 2020
Coverage in Bookanista, Chicago Review of Books, The Irish Times, The White Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Words Without Borders, The Times, The Korea Herald, The Korea Times, Booklist, Publishers Weekly (starred review), Kirkus, Asian Review of Books, Time, Reactor Magazine, Lit Hub, Cha Journal, The Spectator, Asymptote, and on the PEN America podcast.Table for One
One of The Millions' Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2024
One of Ms. Magazine's Favorite Books of 2024
Coverage in Kirkus, Booklist, Financial Times, Locus Magazine, Asymptote, Asian Review of Books, and The Times Literary Supplement.Art on Fire
Coverage in Booklist (starred review), Shelf Awareness, Driftless Area Review, The Arts Fuse, The Korea Herald, and The Korea Times.Korean Teachers
Coverage in Asian Review of Books, The Straits Times, The Korea Herald, The Korea Times, and London Korean Links.Short Translations
Kim, Su-on. "A Ray of Light," Asymptote, January 2022. (with Spencer Lee Lenfield)
Hwang, Jungeun. "Northbound," Azalea vol. 14, 2021.
Yun, Ko-eun. "Sweet Escape," Litro, May 2018.
Yun, Ko-eun. "Roadkill," Azalea vol. 11, 2018.
Gong, Ji Young. "A Good Woman," Asymptote, April 2018.Short Writing
"How Translating Korean Literature Made Me a Better Fiction Writer," Lit Hub, July 28, 2026.
"Tales of Writerly Obsession," Book Riot, July 28, 2026.
"In Review: Sweet Potato by Kim Tong-in," Asymptote, November 22, 2017.Events
October 23, 2026: “Writing and Translating: Bidirectional Influences.” American Literary Translators Association Conference.
September 11, 2026: The Obsessed reading and conversation with Julia Conrad, Prairie Lights Books, Iowa City, IA.
July 30, 2026: The Obsessed reading and conversation with Joanna Rakoff, Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA.
July 29, 2026: The Obsessed reading and conversation with Weike Wang, Books Are Magic, Brooklyn.
July 28, 2026: The Obsessed reading and conversation with Maria Adelmann, Head House Books, Philadelphia.
April 9, 2026: Guest speaker, Introduction to World Literature, Penn State University.
October 30, 2025: Craft talk on editing, Editorial Practice, University of Iowa.
April 16, 2024: Author talk with Yun Ko-eun, Korea Society, New York.
April 4, 2024: Poetry in translation workshop, St. Joseph’s University, Brooklyn.
March 24, 2024: Lecture on Korean science fiction, Global Science Fiction, University of Iowa.
July 29, 2022: Us&Them Translation Reading, Molasses Books, Brooklyn.
November 4, 2021: “What Makes a Translation ‘Good’?”, Undergraduate Translation Workshop, Rutgers University
October 28, 2021: Guest workshop leader, Literary Translation: Advanced Workshop, Harvard University.
September 5, 2021: Lecture on literary translation and guided workshop, Korean Literature in Translation, Harvard University.
November 2, 2020: Korean literary translation workshop, Advanced Writers Seminar: Literary Translation, University of Iowa.
October 8, 2020: Lecture on contemporary Korean literature, Undergraduate Translation Workshop, University of Iowa.
February 25, 2002: “Korean Literary Translation Today.” Publishing II: Advanced Literary Publication, University of Iowa.
December 3, 2018: "Translating Contemporary Korean Literature: ‘High-Context’ to ‘Low-Context’ Translation," The Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication, Princeton University.***Contact Lizzie