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Jane S. Kim is a Korean American writer originally from Los Angeles, CA.
She is a 2026 finalist for the Ploughshares Emerging Writers Contest and the Epiphany Magazine Breakout! Prize as well as a semifinalist for the American Short(er) Fiction Contest and the Chautauqua Janus Prize. She is a 2022 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow. Her work has been generously supported by various fellowships and residencies. Please find more details here.
She holds an MFA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University where she taught creative writing to undergraduates. She also spent eight years working in the tech sector as a software engineer and this experience informs her novel-in-progress.