Hannah Amaris Roh

Hi there! I’m a writer and cultural critic. My writing has appeared in Maisonneuve, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Bitch Media* (clips below). One of my essays 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 an academic monograph based on my doctoral dissertation at the University of Chicago: Christianity, the Sovereign Subject, and Ethnic Nationalism in Colonial Korea: Specters of Western Metaphysics (Routledge, 2023). I’m currently working on creative nonfiction projects, including a memoir and an essay collection.

* 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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“Hunting for Humanity,” maisonneuve.org

“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