Elaine Kim is a queer Korean American fiction writer born and raised in the Midwest. She won a Fulbright Foundation Research Fellowship Grant in the Creative Arts to travel to South Korea, and has won grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Jerome Foundation. Kim was the Justin Chin Memorial Scholarship Fellow at Lambda Literary’s 2021 Writer’s Retreat for Emerging Voices and a Jane Hoppen resident at Paragraph workspace for writers.
Kim has been a resident at Ucross; Sunlit Residency; Looking Glass Arts; Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts; the Hambidge Center; Hedgebrook, where she received an Elizabeth George Fellowship; the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace program; she was a Wallace Reader’s Digest Fellow at Millay Arts; the Edward F. Albee Foundation; and the Blue Mountain Center. Her work has been published in StoryQuarterly, Gertrude, Joyland, Guernica, So to Speak and upstreet and as a part of Emerge, the 2021 Lambda Fellows Anthology. She also has a children’s book featuring an Asian American girl with two moms as part of Scholastic’s Our Voices series for early readers.
Kim has over twenty years of experience as an organizer, facilitator and staffer for various social justice organizations and currently works at Cornell University’s Labor Leadership Initiatives. Kim received her MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and graduated from Brown University. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.