Mary Chi-Whi Kim
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Mary Chi-Whi Kim is a mother of two beautiful Afro-Asian children and a writer and educator who lives in Savannah, Georgia. Her essays, stories, and poems have featured in The New York Times Magazine, NPR's Snap Judgment, The Heartlands Today, Calliope, Calyx, Primavera, Many Mountains Moving, Women's Arts Quarterly, and Literary Mama. She won two poem commissions from the Multicultural Center of The Ohio State University from which she earned a BA and MA in English Literature. Also gaining an MFA in Creative Writing from Bowling Green State University, she garnered publication for her poetry chapbook, Silken Purse, from Pudding House Press.
Her multi-genre creative writing/self-help book dedicated to other survivors of childhood sexual assault, Karma Suture, garnered an Honorable Mention in the 2007 Writers' Digest International Self-Published Books Contest. In 2021, she published a bilingual children's book themed on the Lunar New Year, Super Korean New Years with Grandma, through the multicultural nonprofit TPR Books. Committing two decades to the field of education, she continues to teach multicultural English literature, academic essay and creative writing, and is privileged to have coached students to earn Scholastic Arts and Writing Gold and Silver Keys, story and poem publications. In 2023, her 6th grade student self-published a book written from her beloved dog's perspective, Summer's Diary.
Winning Entry: Umami
Contest Won: Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2023, Honorable Mention
