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Represented By: Sallyanne Sweeney
Her book-length works include Amil’s Roadkill (Harvill Secker,2025) and a co-translation of Kim Hyun’s Glory Hole (Seagull Books, June 2022).
Her other poetry and prose translations have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Columbia Journal, The Washington Square Review, and more.
In 2022, she was chosen for the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) Emerging Translator Mentorship Program to translate Lee Jenny’s first poetry collection Maybe Africa [아마도 아프리카].
In 2023, her as yet unpublished translation of Maybe Africa was shortlisted for the Granum Translation Prize.
Archana’s full writing and translation portfolio can be found at archanawrites.com.
Represented By: Sallyanne Sweeney
Her book-length works include Amil’s Roadkill (Harvill Secker,2025) and a co-translation of Kim Hyun’s Glory Hole (Seagull Books, June 2022).
Her other poetry and prose translations have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Columbia Journal, The Washington Square Review, and more.
In 2022, she was chosen for the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) Emerging Translator Mentorship Program to translate Lee Jenny’s first poetry collection Maybe Africa [아마도 아프리카].
In 2023, her as yet unpublished translation of Maybe Africa was shortlisted for the Granum Translation Prize.
Archana’s full writing and translation portfolio can be found at archanawrites.com.
Translator: Archana Madhavan
Genres: Genre Fiction in Translation, Short Story Collection
With strong roots in feminist science fiction and fantasy, Roadkill is for the next generation of readers of speculative fiction who love to be transported to different worlds but also crave a fresh perspective.
Featuring dystopian wastelands, shamans, self-driving cars, tusked water deer and a divine sea serpent, these six stylistically distinct stories form a sweeping collection that explores contemporary subjects such as the climate crisis, Korean idol culture and techno capitalism through the lives of young women, their friendships and desire for self-expression.
Translated from Korean by Archana Madhavan.
“Roadkill is a radically brilliant collection. These uncanny fables shine a spotlight on the many ways women have been kept down, with nimble sentences that belie the fury thrumming beneath. Reading this book made me want to spark trouble and overthrow the system.”
- Jane Flett, author of Freakslaw
Translator: Archana Madhavan
Genres: Fiction, Genre Fiction
A chilling international debut following a vampire who targets men who have harmed women—in the present, past, and future—and the woman-led task force entrusted with solving the murders
When a man’s body is discovered in a park, Detective Noh Jin-seon is called to the scene, but she soon discovers this case is unlike anything she's seen before. The man, who had been accused of stalking and harassing his ex-girlfriend, was killed with startling force, set on fire, and drained of blood. There are no footprints, no murder weapon, and no leads. Weeks later, another man is discovered murdered in the same way.
What follows is a chorus of characters grappling with the emergence of a serial killer. Among them are women haunted by past abuse who become collectively plagued by visceral dreams of vengeance; a female-led police force tasked with solving the perplexing murders; men who fear their own judgement day will come; and, at the center, Geum-hong, a mother reeling from the loss of her only daughter, who had been brutally murdered by her ex-boyfriend. Her daughter is gone and the trial has passed, but her rage remains, simmering and threatening to consume her...
A brisk, lacerating exploration of power, privilege, and the pursuit of justice—and a foray into the dark underbelly of gender-based violence in Korea—Mothersucker reveals just how far a woman will go to avenge the ones she loves.