Isabel J. Kim

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Isabel J. Kim
Occupation
  • Writer
  • lawyer
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Genre Speculative fiction
Notable awards Shirley Jackson Award (2021)

Isabel J. Kim is an American speculative fiction writer. For her short stories she has won the annual Shirley Jackson Award [1] and been nominated for the Astounding Award for Best New Writer. [2] Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine , Lightspeed, Apex Magazine , Strange Horizons , Fantasy Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies , Cast of Wonders , and khōréō.

Contents

Her work has been collected in The Year's Best Fantasy Volume 2 [3] and The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 . [4]

In April of 2024, Universal International Studios acquired the rights to her planned debut novel Sublimation. [5] The novel is part of a three-book deal.

Background and career

Kim attended the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in Creative Writing and Fine Arts. [6] Kim attended law school at the University of Pennsylvania and now works as a lawyer in New York.

Kim started publishing speculative fiction in 2021 and won the Shirley Jackson Award for "You'll Understand When You're a Mom Someday", her second published story. [1] She won the Clarkesworld reader poll in the Best Short Story category for "Calf Cleaving in the Benthic Black" in 2022. [7]

She was nominated for the Astounding Award for Best New Writer in 2023 [2] in her second year of eligibility for the award. Her work has appeared on the Locus Recommended Reading List for 2021, [8] 2022, [9] and 2023. [10]

She co-hosts the internet culture podcast Wow If True with journalist Amanda Silberling. [11]

Bibliography

Short fiction

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