Suji Kwock Kim

Suji Kwock Kim (born 1969) is a Korean-American poet and playwright.

Life
She graduated from Yale College; the Iowa Writers' Workshop; Seoul National University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar; and Stanford University, where she was a Stegner Fellow.

Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, SLATE, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review and on National Public Radio, reprinted in 24 anthologies, and translated into Korean, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Italian, German, 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 (CBC) in March 2007.

She is collaborating on an opera with the composer Mark Grey for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Los Angeles Master Chorale, and is co-author of Private Property, a multimedia play showcased at Playwrights Horizons (NY), produced at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (UK), and featured on BBC-TV.

Recognition

 * Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for Notes from the Divided Country,
 * Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets
 * The Nation/ Discovery Award, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award
 * PEN USA Award finalist
 * Griffin Poetry Prize 2004 International shortlist
 * 2006 Whiting Writers' Award
 * National Endowment for the Arts grant
 * Fulbright/IIE grant
 * Stanford University grant
 * Blakemore Foundation for Asian Studies grant
 * Association of Asian American Studies grant
 * Korea Foundation grant
 * Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission grant
 * Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation grant
 * New York Foundation for the Arts grant
 * California Arts Council grant
 * San Francisco Arts Commission grant
 * Fine Arts Work Center grant in Provincetown.
 * George Bogin Memorial Award winner, given by the Poetry Society of America, 2011 and 2012

Publications

 * Private Property (multimedia play)
 * Opera with Mark Grey, TBD (libretto; Los Angeles Philharmonic and Los Angeles Master Chorale, forthcoming)
 * "hwajon," "Flight," "Looking at a Yi Dynasty Rice Bowl" (texts for choral compositions by Mayako Kubo, Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus, 2007)
 * "Occupation," "Fragments of the Forgotten War," "Montage with Neon" (texts for compositions for voice and piano by Jerome Blais, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2007)
 * "hwajon," "Flight," "Looking at a Yi Dynasty Rice Bowl" (texts for choral compositions by Mayako Kubo, Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus, 2007)
 * "Occupation," "Fragments of the Forgotten War," "Montage with Neon" (texts for compositions for voice and piano by Jerome Blais, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2007)