Elaine H. Kim is a queer Korean American fiction writer born and raised in the Midwest. She has won fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Jerome Foundation, and was the Justin Chin Memorial Scholarship Fellow at Lambda Literary's 2021 Emerging Writer's Retreat for LGBTQ Voices. Elaine's writing has appeared in Joyland, Guernica, So to Speak, and upstreet, and she has been supported by Hedgebrook, the Millay Colony, LMCC Workspace, and VCCA, among others.