Chungmi Kim

Chungmi Kim, a Korean-American poet and playwright, is the author of poetry books, Glacier Lily (2004) and Chungmi—Selected Poems (1982), and also a screenplay, The Dandelion, which received the first place Open Door Writing Award from the Writers Guild Foundation, West. Her poetry has been included in numerous anthologies and featured on Garrison Keillor’s National Pubic Radio program The Writer’s Almanac and in Poetry Society of America’s “Poetry In Motion” program in Los Angeles. Ms. Kim received an Emmy nomination as co-producer of “Korea: The New Power in the Pacific,” a documentary for KCBS-TV. Her play, Comfort Women, was produced at Urban Stages in New York and consequently published in New Playwrights The Best Plays of 2005 by Smith and Kraus. Its translated version in Korean, Nabi/Comfort Women, was produced at the Seoul Theatre Festival in Korea and also in Vancouver and Toronto in Canada with English and Chinese subtitles. Ms. Kim is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.