Sun Yung Shin is available to speak on the following topics: transracial adoption, Korean adoption, Asian adoption, transnational adoption, adoption and spirituality, parenting, hapa children, feminism, reproductive justice, immigration, ESL, Catholicism and Buddhism, multicultural education and diversity in the workplace, teaching public school, teaching composition and creative writing at the college level, children's literature, reading African American literature, poetry, creative writing, memoir, fiction, essays, editing, small press publishing, editing, freelance journalism, mass media, literature of civil wars, Korean social justice movements including peaceful reunification, labor, demilitarization, and women's rights.
She is also available for artist residencies and custom-made creative writing workshops for your group (students of all ages), as well as individual editing or creative writing mentoring.
For bookings, e-mail her at sunyungshin@gmail.com.
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Sun Yung Shin was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1974 and grew up in Brookfield, IL, a Southwestern suburb of Chicago. She lived in Boston for 10 months, Pittsburgh for 3 months, and has been in the twin cities since 1992.
She is the author of Skirt Full of Black (poems, Coffee House Press 07), co-editor of Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption (South End Press 06), and Cooper's Lesson (Korean/English children's book 04).
Currently she is a 2007 Bush Artists Fellow for Literature and is taking a one-year leave from her position in the English department at the Perpich Center for Arts Education. She will return to FT teaching in fall of 2008.
Her current writing projects include a memoir, a book for adoptive parents, and a second poetry manuscript.
