About

Amanda Mei Kim writes about collective power, culture, and nature in the lives of rural Californians of color. She has been honored as a Narrative Initiative Changemaker, Steinbeck Fellow and a California Arts Council Fellow. Her essays on rural life have received an honorable mention in Best American Essays 2022 and a Pushcart Prize nomination. Her fiction won the Phelan Award and was short-listed for the Heekin Award. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Brick, LitHub, [PANK], Discover Nikkei, Eastwind Magazine, and an anthology of BIPOC women writers. She has completed residencies at Mesa Refuge, Yefe Nof, and Hedgebrook. She is a Japanese and Korean American who grew up on a tenant farm in Saticoy, CA and later, Fairmead, CA. She is represented by Danielle Bukowski of Sterling Lord Literistic.

Thanks to Stephanie, neighbor, friend, designer for creating a fanpage for my dog Danny https://www.instagram.com/wonderdogdanny

Read about the Kim Family Farm at LA Times, Neighborly Charm: Straight From the Farm, June 21, 1990, Michelle Huneven: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-06-21-fo-46-story.html