Chi Kyu (pronounced chee-q—rhymes with the GQ magazine) is a student at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he studies psychology. He is an aspiring clinical psychologist.

He recently graduated from the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where he studied poetry (among other things).

He was born and raised in Seoul but came to the States for his middle and high school years to scratch an educational itch.

In 2020, he graduated from Cornell University, where he studied English literature with a focus on creative writing. In addition to minoring in Arabic, he studied abroad in Jordan to attempt at improving his Arabic.

He lives in New York City with his canine companion, Ato.