Arlene Kim is the author of a forthcoming collection of poems, What have you done to our ears to make us hear echoes? (Milkweed Editions, 2011). Her poetry has appeared in Switched-on Gutenberg, Cha, and DIAGRAM. Kim earned her MFA in poetry from the University of Minnesota, where her work won the 2007 Academy of American Poets’ James Wright Prize. She is an associate poetry editor for the DMQ Review.  

Photo by Arlene Kim