Suji Kwock Kim is a poet and playwright whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, The Nation, and more. She is the author of the poetry collections Disorient, Notes from the North, and Notes from the Divided Country, which won the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award and was a finalist for the Griffin Prize.