Monica Kim (she/her) is a queer Korean diasporic writer living on Canarsie & Munsee Lenape land (Brooklyn, New York). She writes from a place of personal storytelling and against interconnected structures of oppression, such as white supremacy, homophobia and transphobia, and colonialism.
She has published two chapbooks, An abridged medical family history & multiverse of selves (winner of the inaugural Jane Kenyon Chapbook Prize Award in 2020 at the University of Michigan) and dreamterludes (winner of The Blue Mountain Review Asian American Chapbook Award in 2022).
Monica has received two Pushcart Prize in Poetry nominations and two Best of the Net nominations. She is a first reader at Augur Magazine and has participated in the Tin House Summer Workshop, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Periplus Collective, and The Watering Hole.