Sun Yung Shin
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Sun Yung Shin is a Korean American writer, educator and community activist living in Minneapolis, Minnesota
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She is the author of Skirt Full of Black (Coffee House Press
, 2007), the children's book Cooper's Lesson by Children's Book Press and she was an editor for Outsiders Within (South End Press
, 2006), the first anthology on the politics of transracial adoption edited by transracial adoptees.
, South Korea
and grew up in Chicago
as the adopted child of a Polish-Irish-German Catholic American family.
Shin went to school in Boston and St. Paul and currently lives in Minneapolis.
She has worked teaching literature, media reform, and creative writing at the Perpich Center for Arts Education and also taught composition and creative writing at The University of Minnesota, The College of St. Catherine, the Loft Literary Center, and Intermedia Arts/SASE: The Write Place.
Shin's career has frequently involved professions connected to technology and writing and she has worked as a freelance journalist, technical writer, editor, and web content manager and software test analyst.
She is the recent recipient of grants and awards from the Bush Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board and the Jerome Foundation.
Her poems can be found in journals such as Indiana Review
, Swerve
, Court Green
, Mid-American Review
, Sonora Review
, Capilano Review, Xcp cross-cultural poetics, and elsewhere.
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
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She is the author of Skirt Full of Black (Coffee House Press
Coffee House Press
Coffee House Press is a nonprofit independent press based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The press’s goal is to "produce books that celebrate imagination, innovation in the craft of writing, and the many authentic voices of the American experience." It is widely considered to be among the top five...
, 2007), the children's book Cooper's Lesson by Children's Book Press and she was an editor for Outsiders Within (South End Press
South End Press
South End Press is a non-profit book publisher run on a model of participatory economics. It was founded in 1977 by Michael Albert, Lydia Sargent, John Schall, Pat Walker, Juliet Schor, Mary Lea, Joe Bowring, and Dave Millikan, among others, in Boston's South End...
, 2006), the first anthology on the politics of transracial adoption edited by transracial adoptees.
Early years
Sun Yung Shin was born in SeoulSeoul
Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
, South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
and grew up in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
as the adopted child of a Polish-Irish-German Catholic American family.
Shin went to school in Boston and St. Paul and currently lives in Minneapolis.
She has worked teaching literature, media reform, and creative writing at the Perpich Center for Arts Education and also taught composition and creative writing at The University of Minnesota, The College of St. Catherine, the Loft Literary Center, and Intermedia Arts/SASE: The Write Place.
Shin's career has frequently involved professions connected to technology and writing and she has worked as a freelance journalist, technical writer, editor, and web content manager and software test analyst.
Additional Writing and Awards
Shin won the Asian American Literary Award in 2008 for her book of poems Skirt Full of Black. Shin's essays and fiction are anthologized in Fiction on a Stick (Milkweed), Riding Shotgun (Borealis), Transforming a Rape Culture (Milkweed), Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings (Temple University), The Encyclopedia Project Vol. 1, A-E, Vol. 2, F - K, and The Adoption Encyclopedia (Greenwood Publishing).She is the recent recipient of grants and awards from the Bush Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board and the Jerome Foundation.
Her poems can be found in journals such as Indiana Review
Indiana Review
Indiana Review ' is a small, student-run literary magazine at Indiana University. Founded in 1976, it has a circulation of about 2,000.A biannual review, IR publishes essays, fiction, graphic arts, interviews, poetry, and reviews...
, Swerve
Swerve (magazine)
OutWords is a Canadian magazine, published in Winnipeg, Manitoba for the city's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities. Launched in November 1994 as Swerve by a collective that included Carol Philipps, Stephen Lawson, Ian King, David McGunigal and Noreen Stevens, it published as funds...
, Court Green
Court Green
Court Green in North Tawton, Devon, England, was the home the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath moved to in 1961. Plath left the house in December 1962, while Hughes lived there on and off for the rest of his life.- Sylvia Plath at Court Green :...
, Mid-American Review
Mid-American Review
Mid-American Review is an international literary journal dedicated to publishing contemporary fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and translations. Founded in 1981, MAR is a publication of the Department of English and the College of Arts & Sciences at Bowling Green State University...
, Sonora Review
Sonora Review
The Sonora Review is a biannual graduate student-run literary magazine that was established in the fall of 1980. Sonora Review publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, as well as interviews, book reviews, and art. Each issue is produced by graduate student volunteers in the Creative Writing...
, Capilano Review, Xcp cross-cultural poetics, and elsewhere.
External links
- Sun Yung Shin's official website
- A review of Skirt Full of Black
- An Interview With Sun Yung Shin by Asian American Press
- An entry on Sun Yung Shin at Winter Red Press
- An Interview With Sun Yung Shin about Outsiders Within for The Twin Cities Daily Planet
- The 11th Annual Asian American Literary Awards