kim thompson

kim thompson (she/her) is a queer Korean American adoptee and interdisciplinary artist based in Portland, OR, after 25 years in Europe, South Korea, and Minneapolis. She received the 2023 Oregon Literary Fellowship and the 2008 Jerome Travel and Study Grant for Literature, as well as other state and national grants. Her work the year of the wood rabbit appeared in Brink (2024), where she later served as Fiction Editor, and her essay “Dear Mia*” was published in the Korean adoptee anthology In Our Words (2024). She has read at multiple Literary Arts events, including Incite!, where her recent performance led to this invitation to the 2025 Portland Book Festival. Her writing and performances have also been featured at Constellation, Pillsbury House Theatre, the Loft, and the Playwrights’ Center, as well as in Seoul-based media. She is working on a hybrid memoir that interweaves adoption, queerness, survival, and lineage with the fragmented strands of memory and history, moving through loss and reclamation toward being, becoming, and belonging.