Sun Yung Shin (신 선 영) is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection The Wet Hex and three other collections of poetry. She is the editor of three prose anthologies: What We Hunger For: Refugee & Immigrant Stories about Food & Family, A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota, and Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption as well as the author of two books for children. Her work has appeared in the Gwangju Biennale, POETRY, BOMB magazine, and elsewhere. While at MacDowell she will be working on a graphic memoir titled Cigarettes & Lottery Tickets and a speculative novel based on the 1974 attempted assassination of South Korea's military-dictator president Park Chung-hee.
In residence, she worked on two book manuscripts, one titled The Armory, which will explore a personal and collective history of firearms, and also a memoir/essay project centered on the mechanisms affecting the racialized displacement of 200,000 South Korean children citizens to the "West" from 1953 to the present.
