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Sun Yung Shin


SUN YUNG SHIN is the author of Skirt Full of Black(Coffee House Press), co-editor of Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption (South End Press), and Cooper's Lesson (Children's Book Press).

"I consider my work to be transnational and intertextual. I am very interested in the Korean diaspora and the subjectivities beneath the official master narratives, whether Korean, North American, Japanese, Chinese, etc. I am a Korean immigrant and represent the intimacy and exchanges between the United States and the Korean peninsula in the 20th century. My poetics involves an ongoing investigation of that living history. My work tends to foreground the various labors of women and children, from sex work and marriage and maternity to adoption and what I call "the labor of innocence", or the performativity of childhood."

--Sun Yung Shin