Lydia Kim is a writer with work in Nat.Brut, Peatsmoke, The Hellebore, and Longleaf, Review, and Catapult (RIP), and Okay Donkey (Aug 2025), Ploughshares (Jan 2026), as well as the print anthologies And If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing and Non-White and Woman. She is a 2024-25 Tin House Reading Fellow and a non-fiction reader for Electric Lit, and alum of Tin House Summer and Kenyon Winter workshops.

 

She's grateful for the support of the de Groot Foundation Courage to Write grant and the San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Fiction Award. Currently at work on a novel and a short story collection, she reads a lot of stories that are not like her novel. Her favorites lately: DEARBORN, THE HAUNTING OF HAJJI HOTEK, BLISS MONTAGE, RAINBOW RAINBOW, THE BEST POSSIBLE EXPERIENCE, anything Claire Keegan and Deesha Philyaw write, and the novel BROTHER AND SISTER ENTER THE FOREST.

 

In her other working hours, she crafts brand architectures, strategy for creative campaigns, go-to-market strategy for product launches, and turnkey pitches for brands in financial services, CPG, retail, tech, medicine, and hospitality. Past clients include Target, MetLife, Unilever, Hershey, Safeway, Northwestern Mutual, and the SF 49ers. She also designs and conducts workplace workshops for leadership around emotional labor and team culture, processes, and values.

 

Dog person, cannot eat cilantro.

Her niece is also a writer, the Manhattan borough champion of the Ezra James Keats book contest, in fact, and author of many stories.