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name: Juhea Kim
about: Juhea Kim was born in Incheon, Korea, and moved to Portland, Oregon, at age nine. She graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Art and Archaeology and a certificate in French. Her bestselling debut novel, Beasts of a Little Land, was named a finalist for the 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, as well as a Best Book of 2021 by Real Simple, Harper's Bazaar, Ms., and Portland Monthly. It will be published around the world in 2022. Her writing has been published in Granta, Slice, Zyzzyva, Catapult, Guernica, Shenandoah, Times Literary Supplement, Joyland, Sierra Magazine, The Independent, Portland Monthly, The Massachusetts Review, and Dispatches from Annares anthology, among others. Her translation of Yi Sang Award-winning author Ch Juhea Kim was born in Incheon, Korea, and moved to Portland, Oregon, at age nine. She graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Art and Archaeology and a certificate in French. Her bestselling debut novel, Beasts of a Little Land, was named a finalist for the 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, as well as a Best Book of 2021 by Real Simple, Harper's Bazaar, Ms., and Portland Monthly. It will be published around the world in 2022. Her writing has been published in Granta, Slice, Zyzzyva, Catapult, Guernica, Shenandoah, Times Literary Supplement, Joyland, Sierra Magazine, The Independent, Portland Monthly, The Massachusetts Review, and Dispatches from Annares anthology, among others. Her translation of Yi Sang Award-winning author Choi In-Ho was published in Granta. She is the founder and editor of Peaceful Dumpling, an online magazine covering sustainable lifestyle and ecological literature. She has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, Regional Arts &amp; Culture Council, and Arizona State University, where she taught a class on ecological fiction as a 2020 Desert Nights Rising Stars Fellow. She is represented by Jody Kahn at Brandt &amp; Hochman Literary Agency and United Talent Agency (film/TV). In addition to writing fiction, Juhea also works with essays and narrative journalism focusing on the environment. She is donating a portion of the proceeds of Beasts of a Little Land to the Phoenix Fund, a Vladivostok-based conservation nonprofit working to protect the Siberian tiger and the Amur leopard. She lives in Portland, Oregon. Follow Juhea on Instagram @juhea_writes. Profile photo © Bitna Chung ...more