Discipline: Literature – poetry

Suji Kwock Kim

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2000, 2004

Suji Kwock Kim is a Korean-American playwright and poet who was educated at Yale University, the University of Iowa, Stanford University, and the University of California, Berkeley. As a Fulbright Scholar, she studied at Seoul National University and Yonsei University. She is author of the poetry collections, Notes from the North and Notes from the Divided Country, the latter of which won the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, and was a finalist for the Griffin Prize. Kim also co-wrote the multimedia play, Private Property and is recipient of fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the NEA, Fulbright/IIE, Blakemore Foundation for Asian Studies, Korea Foundation, MacDowell, and Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Slate, The Nation, The New Republic, and the Paris Review.

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Star

Suji Kwock Kim worked in the Star studio.

Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…

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