신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin

신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin is a Korean-born creative nonfiction writer, freelance arts journalist, fiction writer, poet, editor, and children’s book author. She is the author of the new experimental poetry/prose book Six Tones of Water co-authored with Vi Khi Nao; The Wet Hex, which won the Society of Midland Author’s Award in Poetry and was a finalist for a 2023 Minnesota Book Award; Unbearable Splendor, a book of essays/poems which won a Minnesota Book Award in 2017; and two other acclaimed books of poetry. She is the editor/co-editor of three anthologies of essays including What We Hunger For: Refugee and Immigrant Stories on Food and Family (2021); A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota (2016); and Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption (2006/2021). She is also the author of two illustrated books for children—most recently the co-authored Where We Come From, a finalist for the 2022 Minnesota Book Award. She has been awarded fellowships from the Bush Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and the MacDowell Foundation, as well as an Asian American Literary Award. Forthcoming books include a picture book about legendary Detroit civil rights activists James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs, and other projects. She has been teaching creative writing in community spaces, public school, and colleges and universities for two decades; with poet Su Hwang she is the co-founder of Poetry Asylum. She lives in Minneapolis with her family.