Jimin Kang

Jimin Kang is a writer, journalist, and scholar. Born in Seoul and raised in Hong Kong, she has also lived in Brazil, the United Kingdom, and the United States, where she is currently pursuing a PhD in Comparative Literature as a Knight-Hennessy scholar at Stanford. Her writing—ranging from fiction and essays to reviews and reportage—has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Nation, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Kenyon Review, and Wasafiri, where she was a finalist for the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize. Lessons in Attention is her first novel.