Sun Yung Shin

Sun Yung Shin (born 1974-) is a Korean American writer, educator and community activist living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has 2 children.

She is the author of Skirt Full of Black (Coffee House Press, 2007), the children's book Cooper's Lesson by Children's Book Press and she was an editor for Outsiders Within (South End Press, 2006), the first anthology of transcultural adoptees written by adult adoptees.

Early Years

Sun Yung Shin was born in Seoul, South Korea and grew up in Chicago as the adopted child of a Polish-Irish-German Catholic American family. This experience as a transcultural adoptee was highly influential on her later work and the themes and issues she addresses.

Shin went to school in Boston and St. Paul and currently lives in Minneapolis.

She has worked teaching literature, media reform, and creative writing at the Perpich Center for Arts Education and also taught composition and creative writing at The College of St. Catherine, the Loft Literary Center, and Intermedia Arts/SASE: The Write Place.

Shin's career has frequently involved professions connected to technology and writing and she has worked as a freelance journalist, technical writer, editor, and web content manager and software test analyst.

Additional Writing and Awards

Shin's essays and fiction are anthologized in Transforming a Rape Culture (Milkweed), Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings (Temple University), The Encyclopedia Project, Vol. 1, A-E, and The Adoption Encyclopedia (Greenwood Publishing).

She is the recent recipient of grants and awards from the Bush Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board and the Jerome Foundation.

Her poems can be found in journals such as Indiana Review, Swerve, Court Green, Mid-American Review, Sonora Review, Capilano Review, Xcp cross-cultural poetics, and elsewhere.

References

* [http://www.sunyungshin.com Sun Yung Shin's official website]
* [http://cutbankpoetry.blogspot.com/2008/03/organs-of-articulation-skirt-full-of.html] A review of Skirt Full of Black
* [http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/interviews/aap/shin_sun_yung.html An Interview With Sun Yung Shin by Asian American Press]
* [http://winteredpress.blogspot.com/2006/03/vestibulary-sun-yung-shin.html An entry on Sun Yung Shin at Winter Red Press]
* [http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/2879 An Interview With Sun Yung Shin about Outsiders Within for The Twin Cities Daily Planet]