Suji Kwock Kim

Suji Kwock Kim is a Korean American poet-playwright 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 Wallace Stegner Fellow. Her work has appeared in "The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, SLATE, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review", and on National Public Radio. Her poems have been reprinted in 22 anthologies and translated into Korean, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Italian, German, Arabic, and Bengali.

Awards

Her first book of poems, "Notes from the Divided Country," won the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, "The Nation"/ Discovery Award, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, and was a finalist for the PEN USA Award and the International Griffin 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 grants from the Whiting Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Blakemore Foundation for Asian Studies, Association of Asian American Studies, Korea Foundation, Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, California Arts Council, San Francisco Arts Commission, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and Washington State Artist Trust.

Music and Theatre

Choral settings of her poems, composed by Mayako Kubo for the Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus, Chorusorganisation, Koreanische Frauengruppe Berlin, and Japanische Fraueninitiative Berlin, premiered at Pablo Casals Hall, Tokyo in December 2007. Vocal settings of her work, composed by Jerome Blais, premiered at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and were recorded by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in March 2007. She is co-author of "Private Property", a multimedia play showcased at Playwrights Horizons (NY), produced at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (UK), and featured on BBC-TV.

Works

* "Notes from the Divided Country" (poems) (Louisiana State University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0807128732)
* "Private Property" (multimedia play)
* "hwajon," "Flight," "Looking at a Yi Dynasty Rice Bowl" (texts for choral compositions by Mayako Kubo, Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus, 2007)
* "Occupation," "Fragments of the Forgotten War," "Montage with Neon" (texts for compositions for voice and piano by Jerome Blais, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2007)

Anthologies

* "American Religious Poetry", ed. Harold Bloom (Library of America, 2007)
* "American War Poetry: 1794-2004" (Columbia University Press, 2006)
* "Asian-American Poetry: The Next Generation" (University of Illinois Press, 2004)
* "Berliner Anthologie" (Alexander Verlag, in association with Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin, 2006)
* "Century of the Tiger: 20th Century Korean Literature" (University of Hawaii Press, 2003)
* "Contemporary American Poetry" (Penguin, 2004)
* "Contemporary American Poetry: U.S. Poets in Russian Translation" (OSI Publishers, Moscow, 2008, in association with the National Endowment for the Arts and U.S. Embassy in Russia)
* "Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writing" (Temple University Press, 2003)
* "The Future Dictionary of America" (McSweeney's, 2004)
* "The Griffin Prize Anthology" (House of Anansi Press, Toronto, 2004)
* "Inside Literature" (Penguin/Longman, 2007)
* "An Introduction to Poetry," 12th Edition, ed. Dana Gioia and X. J. Kennedy (Penguin/Longman, 2007)
* "Language for a New Century: Contemporary Voices from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond" (W. W. Norton, 2008)
* "Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century" (Sarabande, 2006)
* "Lineas Conectadas: Nueva Poesia de los Estados Unidos" (Sarabande, 2006, in association with the National Endowment for the Arts and U.S. Embassy in Mexico)
* "Literature: A Pocket Anthology" (Penguin/Longman, 2007)
* "A Mingling of Waters" (Supernova P&D Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata, India, 2008, in association with the U.S. Embassy in India, USKLE, and 2008 Kolkata Book Fair)
* "The Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators and Waiting Rooms" (Picador, 2004)
* "Poetry: A Pocket Anthology" (Penguin, 2004)
* "Poetry On Record, 1888-2006: 98 Poets Read Their Work" (Shout Factory/ Sony BMG Music, 2006)
* "Poetry 30" (University of West Virginia Press, 2005)

External links

* [http://www.pen.org/members/sujikwockkim PEN Member profile]
* [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/930 Academy of American Poets profile]
* [http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2004.php?t=4 Griffin Prize audio and video clips]
* [http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/2004/kim.html National Book Festival (Library of Congress) profile and video clip]
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1464604 National Public Radio interview]
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/24/AR2006082401207.html Robert Pinsky's "Washington Post" column]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE6DE113EF932A05751C1A9659C8B63&scp=2&sq=suji+kwock+kim&st=nyt New York Times poem]
* [http://www.artsandletters.org/press_releases/2007literature.pdf 2007 American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards announcement]
* [http://www.whitingfoundation.org/whiting_2006.html 2006 Whiting Writers' Awards announcement]
* [http://www.esopusmag.com/archivesubright.php?Id=3128&pID=3123 2006 "Esopus" article]
* [http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=12276 2005 University of California at Berkeley video clip]
* [http://www.sujikwockkim.com Suji Kwock Kim Website]