Kim, Sue Kwock 1968- (Suji Kwock Kim)

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KIM, Sue Kwock 1968- (Suji Kwock Kim)

PERSONAL:

Born 1968. Education: Yale University, B.A., 1995; University of Iowa, M.F.A., 1997; also attended Seoul National University.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of English, Drew University, 36 Madison Ave., Madison, NJ 07940. E-mail—skkim@drew.edu.

CAREER:

Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Stegner fellow, 2002; Drew University, Madison, NJ, assistant professor of English, 2003—.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Fellow of National Endowment for the Arts, 2001; grant from California Arts Council, 2002; Walt Whitman Award, Academy of American Poets, 2002, for Notes from the Divided Country; Fulbright scholar in Korea; fellow of Fine Arts Work Center of Provincetown; grants from Blakemore Foundation for Asian Studies, Korea Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Washington State Artist Trust; Nation/Discovery Award; resident at Vermont Studio Center.

WRITINGS:

(Under name Suji Kwock Kim) Notes from the Divided Country: Poems, Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge, LA), 2003.

Coauthor of Private Property, a multimedia play, produced in Edinburgh, Scotland, at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and broadcast on television by British Broadcasting Corp. Contributor to periodicals, including Poetry, Paris Review, Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, Southwest Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Nation, New England Review, New Republic, and Salmagundi.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

ONLINE

Academy of American Poets Web Site,http://www.poets.org/ (June 12, 2002), "Sue Kwock Kim."

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