Poet/playwright Chungmi Kim is the author of  Chungmi—Seleceted Poems and forthcoming Glacier Lily by Red Hen Press.  Her poetry has appeared in many anthologies, journals and newspapers including Making Waves, Between Ourselves, Grand Passion, Surfacing Sadness, Amerasia Journal, KoreAm Journal, Poetry Seattle, on the spoken word CD, “The Verdict and the Violence,” and in a book, Selected Poems by Three Korean-American Poets. She was one of the poets chosen for the Poetry Society of America’s Poetry In Motion LA ’98-’99.  She has given numerous readings and performances of her work, including at San Francisco Poetry Festival, KPFK Radio, KCET-TV, Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles Poetry Festival and Library of Congress.  Awards she has received include the first place Open Door Writing Award for her screenplay, “The Dandelion,” from the Writers Guild Foundation, West and Grand Prize for her play, “The Comfort Women,” at the 1995 USC One-Act Play Festival.  In 1999, her full-length play, “Hanako,” had a world premiere at East West Players in Los Angeles.  “Comfort Women” (formerly Hanako) is to be produced by Urban Stages in New York in October, 2004.  For television, her credits include writing and producing “The Koreans In L.A.” and “Poets In Profile” for KCET-TV.  As Co-Producer of “Korea: The New Power in the Pacific,” one-hour documentary for KCBS-TV, she received  a Certificate of Merit from Associated Press and an Emmy nomination.

E-mail:  mail@chungmi.com

Chungmi Kim's book of poetry, Glacier Lilly, is now available from Red Hen Press:

Chungmi Kim explores the themes of longing and displacement in a culture she sees as both askew—like seeing “the mountain upside down”—and engaging, as in her title poem, “Glacier Lily,” where identity is born not of the purity of nostalgia but of the coloring of age, vibrant and transforming, as are all of the poems in this collection.- James Ragan

Chungmi Kim’s passion, empathy, and lyric voice bring us diverse communities: from Hollywood to South Central L.A.; from Korea to America. We see what she sees: “the mountain upside down,” but the very next moment we are lifted skyward by her words. Chungmi Kim’s poems find us again and again, but never in the same way. - Russell C. Leong

Chungmi Kim’s words are a paintbrush, painting images of her solitary quest for “home” and love. If you reach deeply into the light and dark of her work, you will remember the despair of betrayal, the joy of at last finding “home.” Glacier Lily is the work of a poet of the heart. - Wakako Yamauchi' - poet, author of Lusions. Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories, and Songs My Mother Taught Me