Caroline Kim is the author of a collection of short stories about the Korean diaspora, The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories, winner of the 2020 Drue Heinz Prize in Literature, a finalist for the Northern California Book Award and the Janet Heidinger Award for Fiction, and long listed for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and The Story Prize. She is the recipient of the 2026 James Jones First Novel Fellowship, an O. Henry Award, Litmag's Anton Chekov Award for Flash Fiction and has received support from Sewanee and Bread Loaf. She has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan where she won a Hopwood Award and an MA in Fiction from UT Austin where she was a Michener Fellow. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Southern Review, The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Award Winners, Georgia Review, New England Review, Story, TriQuarterly,  Lithub, The Rumpus, Pleiades, MANOA, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Santa Monica Review, and elsewhere.