Amanda Mei Kim

Amanda Mei Kim writes about collective power, racism, connections to 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.