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Kim has taught at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and the Tin House Summer Workshop, among many other programs, and been the Hurst Visiting Professor at Washington University and the Bank Visiting Writer at Franklin & Marshall College. They have received residency fellowships from the Ucross Foundation, the Berton House, Wildacres, and the Wallace Stegner House.
Their first novel, For Today I Am a Boy, won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award. It was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and a Lambda Literary Award, as well as a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Their second novel, The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award. Kim has been longlisted for the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Prize for mid-career authors. Their writing has appeared in the New York Times, Granta, the Atlantic, BOMB, Hazlitt, and the TLS.
Kim identifies as agender and pansexual, and uses any/all pronouns (he/she/they).
Kim was born in Canada, is a US citizen, and is of Chinese descent.
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