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; 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 U.K. She is 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, among others, and are appearing or forthcoming in numerous anthologies and international publications. 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.