My name is Jimin Kang, and I am a writer, journalist, and editor currently based in England. I'm also an incoming Knight-Hennessy scholar pursuing a PhD in Comparative Literature at Stanford University. I was born in South Korea, grew up in Hong Kong, and lived in Brazil and the United States—studying Spanish & Portuguese at Princeton—before starting at the University of Oxford, where I completed one master's in Comparative Literature and Critical Translation, and another in Nature, Society & Environmental Governance. (Yes, it appears I'm drawn to programs with long names).

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My writing—in the form of essays, fiction, translation, and literary criticism—has been published in outlets including The New York Times, The Nation, Los Angeles Review of Books, Joyland, Wasafiri, Asymptote Journal, among others; in 2022, I was a finalist for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize for fiction, and in 2021 received an Honorable Mention in the Ploughshares Emerging Writers Contest.

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I speak English, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, and Chinese, though I write and work primarily in the first two (or three, if I'm being generous). I've previously worked as a journalist with the Brazil bureau of Reuters and as an editor at The Oxonian Review, where I launched a column on Hong Kong writing. These days, I'm at work on my first novel.