Arlene Kim received an MFA in poetry from the University of Minnesota, where she received the 2006 Gesell Award for Poetry, judged by Major Jackson, the 2007 Marcella DeBourg Fellowship for Writing, and the 2007 Academy of American Poets James Wright Prize for Poetry. Kim resides in Seattle, Washington. What have you done to our ears to make us hear echoes?, for which she received an American Book Award, is her first collection of poems.
