Sun Yung Shin
About
Sun Yung Shin (born 1974-) is a Korean American writer, educator and community activist living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has 2 children.
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 of transcultural adoptees written by adult adoptees.
Shin’s essays and fiction are anthologized in Transforming a Rape Culture (Milkweed), Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings (Temple University), The Encyclopedia Project, Vol. 1, A-E, 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, Swerve, Court Green, Mid-American Review, Sonora Review, Capilano Review, Xcp cross-cultural poetics, and elsewhere.
She is the winner of the 2008 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry for Skirt Full of Black.