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Eugenia Kim is the daughter of Korean immigrant parents who came to America shortly after the Pacific War.
She has published short stories and essays in journals and anthologies, including Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings. An MFA graduate of Bennington College, Eugenia teaches fiction at Fairfield University's low-residency MFA Creative Writing Program. She lives in Washington, D.C.
The Calligrapher’s Daughter is her first novel. To learn more about her second novel, The Kinship of Secrets, see
An Interview With Eugenia Kim
The Calligrapher’s Daughter is your first novel.
Why this story and this subject?
Like many immigrant parents, mine often talked about their lives in the old country—for them, Korea. They had only intended to stay in America for a year, but the outbreak of the Korean War changed all that.
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