Suji Kwock Kim, Assistant Professor

Teaching interests

contemporary and Korean American poetry

Publications
Suji Kwock Kim's first book, Notes From the Divided Country, won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, THE NATION/Discovery Award, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, and was a finalist for the PEN USA Award and the International Griffin Prize. Poems from her forthcoming second book have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Paris Review, Slate, The Nation, The New Republic, and on National Public Radio. She was the recipient of a 2006 Whiting Writers Award and also served as a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. Choral settings of her work, composed by Mayako Kubo for the Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus, will premiere in December 2007, and vocal settings of her work, composed by Jerome Blais, were performed in Halifax, Nova Scotia in March 2007. Private Property, a multimedia play she co-wrote, was produced at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and featured on BBC-TV.

Read samples of Suji Kwock Kim's work: "Monologue for an Onion" (Academy of American Poets), "Occupation" (The Washington Post), and "Skins" (Slate).

Office: Wheatley-6-029
Telephone: 617-287-6722
Email: suji.kwock-kim@umb.edu