Whiting Foundation

Suji Kwock Kim's first book, NOTES FROM THE DIVIDED COUNTRY, 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, THE NATION/ Discovery Award, and was a finalist for the Griffin Prize. Poems from her forthcoming second book, DISORIENT, have appeared in THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, SLATE, THE NATION, THE NEW REPUBLIC, and on National Public Radio.  Her work has been reprinted in 25 anthologies and translated into Korean, Japanese, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, Italian, German, Arabic, and Bengali.

PRIVATE PROPERTY, a multimedia play she co-wrote, was showcased at Playwrights Horizons (NY) and produced at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (UK). She has received Whiting, Fulbright, National Endowment for the Arts, and Wallace Stegner Fellowships, as well as awards from the Blakemore Foundation for Asian Studies, Association for Asian American Studies, Korea Foundation, Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, California Arts Council, San Francisco Arts Commission, and Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Currently she is a N.E.A./U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Fellow.

• NOTES FROM THE DIVIDED COUNTRY (poems: LSU Press, 2003)
• PRIVATE PROPERTY (multimedia play: Edinburgh Festival Fringe, U.K.)
• "hwajon," "Flight," "Looking at a Yi Dynasty Rice Bowl" (texts for choral compositions by Mayako Kubo: Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus, Japan 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)
• Opera with the composer Mark Grey, Los Angeles Philharmonic and Los Angeles Master Chorale, TBD