[3][4] Koh is the recipient of The Virginia Faulkner Award and fellowships from the American Literary Translators Association,[5] Jack Straw Writers Program,[6] Kundiman (nonprofit organization), MacDowell Colony,[7] Napa Valley Writers' Conference, and Vermont Studio Center.
[9] Koh earned her MFA at Columbia University in New York for Creative Writing and Literary Translation.
She is completing her PhD at the University of Washington in English Language and Literature.
[10] Her memoir, The Magical Language of Others, published in 2020, weaves the stories of four generations of women in Koh's family.
Interspersed with letters exchanged between mother and daughter, the text illustrates how language ties them together.