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AMANDA MEI KIM

Creative

CREATIVE NONFICTION
"Touch: A transcription," Nonwhite and Woman, an Anthology of BIPOC Women Writers, Woodhall Press, forthcoming
"Dear Sosobo," Brick, December 2021
"Vernon on the water," PANK Magazine, Environmental Futures Folio, April 2021
"Living that van life before it was a hashtag," Lit Hub, January 2021
"Van Life," Brick, December 2020, nominated for a Pushcart Prize

JOURNALISM
"Hungry for Justice: How the Police-Involved Killing of a Hmong American in Rural California Sparked a Movement," Eastwind Magazine, July 28, 2021

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES
2022-23  Steinbeck Fellow
2022     Marion Weber Healing Arts Fellowship
2022    Nominee, Best American Essays
2021     California Arts Council Emerging Artist Fellowship
2021     Nominee, Pushcart Prize
2018     Yefe Nof California Residency, Lake Arrowhead, CA
2003     Hedgebrook Residency, Whidbey Island, WA
1999     Fine Arts Work Center Residency, Provincetown, MA
1999     Phelan Literary Award, San Francisco, CA
1999     Semi-finalist, Heekin Award in the Novel

COMMUNITY/ARTS ACTIVITIES
2021          Media Relations Director, Justice for Siskiyou, Yreka, CA
2019           Media Relations Director, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee, San Antonio, TX
2018-21     Founding member, JA Writing Project, San Francisco, CA
2018-19     Member, INFUSION Hybrid Arts Project, Emeryville, CA
2017-20    Board of Directors, East Palo Alto Center for Community Media
2017-18     Marketing Advisor, Hack the Hood, Oakland, CA
2015-17     Outreach Co-chair, San Mateo County Sea Level Rise Community Advisory Committee
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EDITORIAL
1999-2000    Shankpainter Review, Provincetown, MA, Fiction Editor
1998-1999     Fourteen Hills Literary Journal, San Francisco, CA, Fiction Editor


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