Suji Kwock Kim


Suji Kwock Kim is a Korean American poet-playwright.

Life

She was educated at Yale College, the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, Seoul National University and Yonsei University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar, and Stanford University, where she was a Stegner Fellow.
Her work has been published in The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, New Statesman, Irish Examiner, Slate, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The London Magazine, Poetry London, Poetry Review and Poetry, recorded for BBC Radio, National Public Radio, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Free Genoa, and Radio Free Amsterdam, and translated into Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, Croatian, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, and Bengali.

Music and theatre

Choral settings of her poems, composed by Mayako Kubo for the Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus, Chorusorganisation, Koreanische Frauengruppe Berlin, and Japanische Fraueninitiative Berlin, premiered at Pablo Casals Hall, Tokyo in December 2007. Vocal settings of her work, composed by Jerome Blais, premiered at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and were recorded by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in March 2007. It was later performed by the Solera Quartet at the Art Institute of Chicago, May 2019, and recorded by WFMT Chicago. She is co-author of Private Property, a multimedia play showcased at Playwrights Horizons, produced at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and featured on BBC-TV.

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