Suji Kwock Kim

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Suji Kwock Kim is the author of Notes from the Divided Country, which received the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets (selected by Yusef Komunyakaa), the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (selected by Charles Simic), the Whiting Writers’ Award, the Bay Area Book Reviewers/Northern California Book Award, The Nation/“Discovery” Award, and was a finalist for the Griffin Prize. Her other works include Private Property, a multimedia play performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; Notes from the North, which received the International Book & Pamphlet Award (selected by Michael Schmidt, Neil Astley, and Amy Wack); Untitled, and And the Pursuit Of, two pamphlets forthcoming in the UK. She was 2023 Poet-in-Residence at the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere and 2024 Writer-in-Residence at the Gladstone Library in Wales. Selections from Disorient received three Poetry Society of America Awards, as well as awards from Poetry London, Well Review (Ireland) and Southword (Ireland), and are appearing or forthcoming in numerous anthologies and international publications.

Suji has received fellowships and grants from the Whiting Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Association for Asian Studies, Blakemore Foundation for Asian Studies, Korea Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts/ Japan Foundation/ U.S.-Japan Creative Artists, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, California Arts Council, San Francisco Arts Commission, and Washington State Artist Trust.

Her work has been performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus at Pablo Casals Hall, Tokyo; Chorusorganisation, Koreanische Frauengruppe and Japanische Fraueninitiative in Berlin; the Solera Quartet at the Art Institute of Chicago; Dalhousie University Orchestra in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; and recorded for BBC Radio, National Public Radio, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Free Amsterdam, Radio Free Genoa, the Library of Congress, Poetry Archive (U.K.), and translated into Spanish, Russian, German, Italian, Croatian, Korean, Japanese, Bengali and Arabic.

During her Hodder Fellowship year, Kim will complete Disorient, which will incorporate these three chapbooks and newer work.

This information is accurate as of the fellowship year indicated.

Suji’s poem, “Search Engine: Notes from the North Korean-Chinese-Russian Border,” was the focus of an episode of Poetry Unbound — February 2024

Suji’s poem “Sono” broadcast by Major Jackson on The Slowdown | Minnesota Public Radio, July 2024

Notes from the North named a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Month — October 2024

Suji Named a Poet-in-Residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington, CT — July 2025

Suji Kwock Kim featured in Faith in Verse: Biblical Presence in Contemporary Anglo-American Poetry by Philipp Reisner (Chapter 2: Commemorative Mysticism: Suji Kwock Kim) — Published by Bloomsbury Academics, January 2026