Hannah Amaris Roh

Hi there! I’m a writer and cultural critic. My writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books and Bitch Media* (clips below) and came in third place in EVENT Magazine‘s 2025 nonfiction contest. I was raised in South Korea and the U.S. and now live in Vancouver, on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. 

My first book was a monograph from my prior life as an academic: Christianity, the Sovereign Subject, and Ethnic Nationalism in Colonial Korea: Specters of Western Metaphysics (Routledge, 2023). This project was based on my doctoral dissertation on Christianity and colonialism. I’m currently working on creative nonfiction projects, including a memoir-in-essays and a book of cultural criticism.

* Bitch Media has sadly ceased operations in May 2022. Although my clips from Bitch are no longer available online, you can view the PDF versions below (please excuse the formatting for the hyperlinks within the text).

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“Why Are We Stuck Here: ‘Squid Game,’ Trauma, and Repetition,” lareviewofbooks.org

“Face Value: How K-Beauty Repackaged Skincare as Self-Care,” bitchmedia.org

“White Lies: Unilever and L’Oréal Can’t Rebrand Their Way out of Colorism,” bitchmedia.org

“Phantom Pain: U.S. Imperialism Haunts Korea’s Cosmetic-Surgery Boom,” Bitch Magazine, Issue #89

“My ‘Minari’: On Asian American Immigrant Cinema,” lareviewofbooks.org

“Out of Network: What’s Really Behind ‘Health-Share’ Ministries?” bitchmedia.org

“Another Kind of Metaphysics: Learning to Let Go,” lareviewofbooks.org