Eugenia Kim’s debut novel, The Calligrapher’s Daughter, won the Borders Original Voices Award, was shortlisted for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and was a Washington Post Best Historical Novel and Critic’s Pick. Her second novel, The Kinship of Secrets, was a Library Reads pick, and an Amazon Best Book of the Month/Literature and Fiction. She is a fellow at Hedgebrook, I-Park Foundation, Ox-Bow School of Art, the 2014 Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellow at Millay Colony, the 2012 Eli Cantor Fellow at Yaddo, and the 2010-11 Stanford Calderwood Fellow at MacDowell. Kim is a 2018 Washington, DC Council on the Arts and Humanities Fellowship recipient. She teaches at Fairfield University’s low-residency M.F.A. Creative Writing Program.
Eugenia Kim
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Calderwood
Eugenia Kim worked in the Calderwood studio.
In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Stanford Calderwood, a newspaperman in his youth who later went on to establish an investment firm, was a lover of nonfiction and was a member of MacDowell’s board of directors…