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Bio for Mary Chi-Whi Kim
Mary Chi-Whi Kim holds a MA in English Literature from The Ohio State University and a MFA in Creative Writing from Bowling Green State University. She has published in The New York Times Magazine and in various literary journals such as Many Mountains Moving, Puerto Del Sol, Kalliope, The APA Journal, and Literary Mama, and won two poem commissions from The Ohio State University. Her poetry chapbook, Silken Purse, has been published by Pudding House Press, the largest small literary press in the US; her self-help/creative writing book especially for abuse survivors, Karma Suture, won an Honorable Mention in the 2007 Writers' Digest Internatioal Self-Published Book Contest and is available via Amazon.com.
Based now in Savannah, Georgia, she has featured as poet, speaker, and workshop leader at Midwest college conferences, Ohio statewide rallies, and nationally and regionally recognized venues.
As a community member, she is responsible for helping fund Columbus, Ohio’s first-ever Asia Fest, now an annual central Ohio tradition. While an undergraduate at The Ohio State University and coeditor of the Asian American Voice there, she helped secure permanent institutional funding for the student newsletter and change the Women Studies curriculum by conducting research on Asian and Asian American women’s literature. In 2006, she co-organized Savannah's first community-based Asian American literary events. She currently teaches at Savannah College of Art and Design, please email her at hannaverse@yahoo.com.
