CREATIVE NONFICTION
"California Obscura" forthcoming November 2023
"A grand gesture gone wrong," Tiny Love Story, New York Times, December 2022
"Dear Sosobo" republication by Discover Nikkei, December 2022
"Touch: A transcription," Nonwhite and Woman, 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World, Woodhall Press, 2022
"Dear Sosobo," Brick, December 2021
"Vernon on the water," PANK Magazine, Environmental Futures Folio, April 2021, Notable Mention in Best American Essays 2022
"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
de Groot Foundation, Courage to Write, Writer of Note, 2023
Steinbeck Fellow, San José State University, 2022-23  
Marion Weber Healing Arts Fellowship, Mesa Refuge, 2022        
Notable Mention, Best American Essays 2022
California Arts Council Emerging Artist Fellowship, 2022       
Nominee, Pushcart Prize, 2021
Yefe Nof California Residency, Lake Arrowhead, CA, 2018
Hedgebrook Residency, Whidbey Island, WA, 2003
Fine Arts Work Center Residency, Provincetown, MA, 1999-2000
Phelan Literary Award, San Francisco, CA, 1999
Semi-finalist, Heekin Award in the Novel, 1999

COMMUNITY/ARTS ACTIVITIES
Founder and Lead Researcher, Kansha History, California, May 2023-present
Board Member, Voice of Witness, San Francisco, CA, 2022-present        
Media Relations Director, Justice for Siskiyou, Yreka, CA, 2021-present
Media Relations Director, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee, San Antonio, TX, 2019-present
Founding member, JA Writing Project, San Francisco, CA, 2018-2021
Member, INFUSION Hybrid Arts Project, Emeryville, CA, 2018-19    
Board Member, East Palo Alto Center for Community Media, 2017-20    
Marketing Advisor, Hack the Hood, Oakland, CA, 2017-18     
Outreach Co-chair, San Mateo County Sea Level Rise Community Advisory Committee, 2015-17     
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EDITORIAL
1999-2000     Shankpainter Review, Provincetown, MA, Fiction Editor
1998-1999      Fourteen Hills Literary Journal, San Francisco, CA, Fiction Editor

BIO
Amanda Mei Kim writes about collective power, racism, nature, and capitalism in the lives of rural Californians of color. She is a Steinbeck Fellow and a California Arts Council Fellow. Her essays on rural life have received an honorable mention in Best American Essays 2022 and a Pushcart Prize nomination. Her fiction won the Phelan Award and was short-listed for the Heekin Award. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Brick, LitHub, [PANK], Discover Nikkei, Eastwind Magazine, and an anthology of BIPOC women writers. She has completed residencies at Mesa Refuge, Yefe Nof, Hedgebrook, and the Fine Arts Work Center. She is a Japanese and Korean American who grew up on a tenant farm in Saticoy, CA. She is represented by Danielle Bukowski of Sterling Lord Literistic.

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