kim thompson (she/her) is a queer Korean-American adoptee and interdisciplinary artist based in Portland, OR, after 25 years in Europe, South Korea, and Minneapolis. A recipient of the 2023 Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship and other state and national grants, including the 2008 Jerome Travel Grant, kim’s work “the year of the wood rabbit” appeared in Brink (2024), where she now serves as Fiction Editor. Her essay “Dear Mia*” appears in In Our Words, a South Korea–published adoptee anthology (2024). Her work has been featured at Literary Arts, Constellation, and in Minneapolis at Pillsbury House Theatre, the Loft, and the Playwrights’ Center, as well as in Seoul-based media.
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