Amil is a novelist, translator and essayist. She won the bronze medal at the Daesan Youth Literature Award for her short story ‘You Should Want To Be a Cartoonist’, the 2018 SF Award in the Short-Mid Novel category for the titular story ‘Roadkill’, and the 2020 SF Award Grand Prize for ‘Rabbi’. She has also written a novel, The Forest Called You. Amil has translated Alberto Manguel’s Fabulous Monsters and Joyce Carol Oates’ Haunted, Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein: A Love Story, R. O. Kwon’s Incendiaries, Lucas Rijneveld’s The Discomfort of Evening and James Baldwin’s Giovanni's Room. She writes novels using the name ‘Amil’, meaning ‘The Dense Self’. When translating, she uses her name, Jihyun Kim.
