Sun Yung Shin is the author of two poetry collections: Rough, and Savage, which was a finalist for The Believer Poetry Award, and Skirt Full of Black, which won an Asian American Literary Award for Poetry, both published by Coffee House Press. She is co-editor of the anthology Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption and the author of Cooper's Lesson, a bilingual (Korean/English) children's book. Her essays, stories, poems, and reviews have been published widely in anthologies, journals, newspapers, and in other venues such as art museums, a light rail transit station, a mayor's inaugural bash, community events, etc. She has performed and presented at numerous events across the U.S and in Korea, curated many readings, and taught creative writing to students of all ages. She also currently writes a regular Arts column for the online magazine Gazillion Voices, blogs about cinema/women of color at Cinema for the People, and is the founder of the online journal This Spectral Evidence where she publishes interviews with and work by poets. Her author website is www.sunyungshin.com. She lives in Minneapolis.