Sun Yung Shin is the author of poetry collections
Rough, and Savage and
Skirt Full of Black, which won an Asian American Literary Award. She coedited the anthology
Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption, and is the author of
Cooper's Lesson, a bilingual Korean/English illustrated book for children. She's received grants and fellowships from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Bush Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and elsewhere. She lives in Minneapolis.
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