Mary-Kim Arnold
Brown University Visiting Lecturer
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Mary-Kim Arnold’s Litany for the Long Moment (Essay Press, 2018), an experimental memoir about her adoption from Korea at the age of two, has been honored by the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association, featured in NPR’s Code Switch 2018 Book Guide, and named by Entropy Magazine as one of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2018. Her poetry collection, The Fish & The Dove, is forthcoming from Noemi Press in 2020. She received a 2018 MacColl Johnson Fellowship for her novel in progress, Nine Men’s Misery. Other publication highlights include Conjunctions, Hyperallergic, Poem-a-Day, The Georgia Review, The Rumpus, and Tupelo Quarterly. She holds a BA and MFA from Brown University, where she is currently a Faculty Fellow at the Swearer Center for Public Service and teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program.