Amanda Mei Kim

Amanda is a Japanese- and Korean-American who grew up on a tenant farm. She was awarded the Phelan Award and a California Arts Council Fellowship, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Amanda has completed residencies at Yefe Nof, Hedgebrook, and the Fine Arts Work Center. She has been published in Tayo, LitHub and PANK, and has pieces forthcoming in Brick and an anthology of BIPOC women writers. At Mesa Refuge, she worked on a memoir-in-essays, inspired by her family’s 120-year history as agricultural workers in California, exploring how this state’s unique agricultural system has evolved over time to exploit greater and greater natural resources and people of color.