Yoon Sook Cha is a writer and photographer whose work examines the iterations of the self at the site of its inscription and decreation. She received her PhD from the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program for Structured Liberal Education at Stanford University and was most recently an artist at the Winter Writers Residency 2023 at the Banff Centre. Her published work includes Decreation and the Ethical Bind: Simone Weil and the Claim of the Other (Fordham University Press, 2017). She lives and works on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xwməθkwəyə̓ m, Sḵwxw̱ ú7mesh, and səlí̓lwətaʔɬpeoples.