Seymour Mayne characterized her in 1985, three years after her death, as "the first major woman poet in Canadian literature.

"[1] Korn was born in eastern Galicia on a farming estate near Pidlisky (now in Ukraine),[2] and started writing poetry at an early age.

It was in this year that Korn's first published works appeared, in Nowy Dziennik, a Zionist newspaper, and in Głos Przemyski, a socialist journal.

[3] Her recognition grew with the publication of her first volumes of poetry: Dorf (Village, 1928) and Royter mon (Red Poppies, 1937).

[5] Korn's fourth collection of poetry, Heym un heymlozikayt (Home and Homelessness), was published in 1948.