Jessica Kim (Spoken Label, September 2022)

Latest Spoken Label Session features Elisabeth Horan from Animal Heart Press as a additional guest explaining a little bit about the collection "L(EYE)GHT" in discussion features the wonderful Jessica Kim.  

Jessica Kim  (she/her) is a Korean-American high school junior and poet who has lived in Korea, Singapore, and currently lives in Los Angeles, California. She identifies as visually-impaired and advocates for the disabled community.  Recently, she has been named the 2021-22 Los Angeles Youth Poet Laureate and runner-up for the 2022 United States National Youth Poet Laureate. 

She is the author of L(EYE)GHT, runner-up for Animal Heart Press' Chapbook Contest, which has been published in April 2022. You can read all my interviews and press releases under EXPERIENCE.  Jessica's poems appear in POETRY Magazine, The Adroit Journal, Frontier Poetry, The Journal, and Waxwing Magazine among others. A Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize Nominee, she is also a YoungArts Finalist in Writing (Poetry), 1st Place Winner of Columbia College Chicago's Young Authors Contest, Commended Foyle Young Poet, 2nd Place Winner of the Bennington Young Writers Awards (Poetry), Gregory Djanikian Scholar Finalist, and more.  

More about Jessica can be found at: https://jessicakimwrites.weebly.com/ 

Her collection can be bought from all major websites but in particularly from https://animalheartpress.net/