Suji Kwock Kim’s parents and grandparents were all born in what is now North Korea, where her grandfather, uncle, aunt, and cousins still live. She is the author of Notes from the Divided Country (Louisiana State University Press, 2003), which won the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets; Private Property, a multimedia play performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; and Disorient, which is forthcoming.