Eugenia Kim's debut novel, The Calligrapher's Daughter, won the 2009 Borders Original Voices Award, was shortlisted for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and was Best Historical Novel and Critic's Pick by The Washington Post. Her stories have appeared in Asia Literary Review, Washington City Paper, Eclectic Grace: Fiction by Washington Area Women, and elsewhere. A Bennington College MFA graduate, Kim teaches Fairfield University's MFA Creative Writing Program. She lives in Washington, DC.