Suji Kwock Kim

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Suji Kwock Kim is a Korean American poet born in 1969. She received a B.A. from Yale University, M.F.A. from the University of Iowa, attended Seoul National University and Yonsei University as a Fulbright Scholar, and Stanford University as a Stegner Fellow. Ms. Kim has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Drew University, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Wesleyan Writers’ Conference, Stanford University and the University of Iowa. Her recent poems have appeared in THE NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, LOS ANGELES TIMES, SLATE, THE NATION, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE PARIS REVIEW, and National Public Radio. Choral settings of her poems, composed by Mayako Kubo for the Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus, Chorusorganisation, Koreanische Frauengruppe Berlin, and Japanische Fraueninitiative Berlin, are scheduled to premiere in December 2007. She is co-playwright of PRIVATE PROPERTY, a multimedia play showcased at Playwrights Horizons (NY), produced at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (UK), and featured on BBC-TV. Her poems have been translated into Korean, Japanese, Spanish, German and Arabic.

1 Awards
2 Works
3 Anthologies
4 External links

[edit] Awards

Her first book, NOTES FROM THE DIVIDED COUNTRY, won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, THE NATION / Discovery Award, and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. It was also named a finalist for the PEN USA Award and the International Griffin Poetry Prize, as well as being named a Notable Book by the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Association and the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, as well as awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, New York Foundation for the Arts, California Arts Council, Washington State Artist Trust, Korea Foundation and Blakemore Foundation for Asian Studies.

[edit] Works

Notes from the Divided Country (poems) (Louisiana State University Press, 2003)
Private Property (multimedia play)
"hwajon," "Flight," "Looking at a Yi Dynasty Rice Bowl" (texts for choral compositions)

[edit] Anthologies

AMERICAN RELIGIOUS POETRY, ed. Harold Bloom (Library of America, 2006)
LINEAS CONECTADAS: NUEVA POESIA DE LOS ESTADOS UNITOS (Sarabande, 2006, in association with the National Endowment for the Arts and U. S. Embassy in Mexico)
BERLINER ANTHOLOGIE (Alexander Verlag, in association with Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin, 2006)
AMERICAN WAR POETRY: 1794-2004 (Columbia University Press, 2006)
POETRY ON RECORD: 98 POETS READ THEIR WORK (Shout Factory/ Sony BMG Music, 2006)
CONTEMPORARY VOICES FROM THE EASTERN WORLD (W. W. Norton, 2007)
LEGITIMATE DANGERS: AMERICAN POETS OF THE NEW CENTURY (Sarabande, 2006)
POETRY 30 (University of West Virginia Press, 2005)
THE PARIS REVIEW BOOK FOR PLANES, TRAINS, ELEVATORS, AND WAITING ROOMS (Picador, 2004)
ASIAN-AMERICAN POETRY: THE NEXT GENERATION (University of Illinois Press, 2004)
POETRY: A POCKET ANTHOLOGY (Penguin, 2003)
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY (Penguin, 2003)
LITERATURE: A POCKET ANTHOLOGY (Penguin, 2003)
ECHOES UPON ECHOES: NEW KOREAN AMERICAN WRITING (Temple University Press, 2003)
CENTURY OF THE TIGER: 20TH CENTURY KOREAN LITERATURE (University of Hawaii Press, 2003)