We welcome award-winning poet and editor Sarah Howe who will read and be in conversation with poet and playwright Suji Kwock Kim.

Sarah Howe is a Hong Kong-born poet, poet, academic and editor. Her first book, Loop of Jade (Chatto & Windus, 2015), won the T.S. Eliot Prize and The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. A new collection is forthcoming in 2025. She is an Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Liverpool and the Poetry Editor at Chatto & Windus.

Suji Kwock Kim is a poet and playwright. She was educated at Yale University, the University of Iowa, Stanford University, and the University of California, Berkeley. As a former Fulbright Scholar, she studied at Seoul National University and Yonsei University, where her great-grandfather had been professor and dean of the graduate school and cofounder of the Korean Language Society (조선어학회), which was organized in resistance to the Japanese occupation. She is the author of the poetry collections Notes from the North (2020) and Notes from the Divided Country (2003), which won the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, and was a finalist for the Griffin Prize.