Suji Kwock Kim was born in Milton, New York in 1969. She attended Yale University where she received her bachelor’s degree in 1995 and received her master’s degree in fine arts from the University of Iowa’s writing program in 1997. Kim was also educated at Seoul National University and Yonsei University as a Fullbright Scholar, and at Stanford University as a Wallace Stegner Fellow. When she was twenty-one years old, she began writing poetry after she attended a poetry writing workshop in college. She was motivated to write poetry because she was intrigued by its structure. The rhythm and music of inspires her and she loves to write poetry even though it may seem tough at times because she has a hard time containing all her intense feelings and emotions.
Kim’s first book of poems, Notes from the Divided Country, won numerous awards. Some of the awards include the 2002 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. Since then she has written a number of works and several anthologies. Her works have appeared in newspapers including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times and have been heard on National Public Radio. 24 of her anthologies have been translated into several languages including Korean, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Italian, German, Arabic, and Bengali. Her works have also appeared in other works of poetry and anthologies such as Poetry, Paris Review, The Nation, Yale Review, New England Review, Southwest Review, Harvard Review, and Asian-American Poetry: The Next Generation.
Besides being a poet, Kim is also a playwright with music and theatre. Her work Private Property is a multimedia play that showcased at Playwrights Horizons in New York and was featured on BBC-TV. Texts from her poetry book Notes from the Divided Country were sung by choruses, voiced, and had music accompaniment. Poems "hwajon," "Flight," and "Looking at a Yi Dynasty Rice Bowl" were sung at Pablo Casals Hall, Tokyo in December 2007. Poems "Occupation," "Fragments of the Forgotten War," and "Montage with Neon" had voice and piano composition accompaniment. Other numerous awards that she has received are being named a Notable Book by the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Association and the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights and also being a finalist for the PEN USA Award and the International Griffin Prize. Kim is also the recipient of grants from organizations such as the Association of Asian American Studies, Korea Foundation, Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, and San Francisco Arts Commission.
Kim’s first book of poems, Notes from the Divided Country, won numerous awards. Some of the awards include the 2002 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. Since then she has written a number of works and several anthologies. Her works have appeared in newspapers including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times and have been heard on National Public Radio. 24 of her anthologies have been translated into several languages including Korean, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Italian, German, Arabic, and Bengali. Her works have also appeared in other works of poetry and anthologies such as Poetry, Paris Review, The Nation, Yale Review, New England Review, Southwest Review, Harvard Review, and Asian-American Poetry: The Next Generation.
Besides being a poet, Kim is also a playwright with music and theatre. Her work Private Property is a multimedia play that showcased at Playwrights Horizons in New York and was featured on BBC-TV. Texts from her poetry book Notes from the Divided Country were sung by choruses, voiced, and had music accompaniment. Poems "hwajon," "Flight," and "Looking at a Yi Dynasty Rice Bowl" were sung at Pablo Casals Hall, Tokyo in December 2007. Poems "Occupation," "Fragments of the Forgotten War," and "Montage with Neon" had voice and piano composition accompaniment. Other numerous awards that she has received are being named a Notable Book by the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Association and the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights and also being a finalist for the PEN USA Award and the International Griffin Prize. Kim is also the recipient of grants from organizations such as the Association of Asian American Studies, Korea Foundation, Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, and San Francisco Arts Commission.
Suji Kwock Kim now divides her time between San Francisco and New York. She is married to her husband whom she met during her freshman year at Yale University.
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