POETRY BIO

Along with Border Sounds, Kim has published 150+ lineated poems, prose poems, creative non-fiction, flash fiction, haiku, and microfiction, in print and on-line in journals from Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, Ireland, Korea, Poland, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, United Arab Emirates (Dubai) and the USA, including The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Elsewhere Lit, Frogpond, and Mudlark. 
He has taken numerous writing workshops at The Poetry Barn in West Hurley, NY, and The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD. with poets including Sandra Beasley, Joshua Davis, Jenn Givhan, Brenda Mann Hammack, Lissa Kiernan, and Kim Noriega.

THEATER BIO

As long-time Artistic Director of Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences (TYA), Kim commissioned and produced 100+ new plays and musicals and presented the finest national and international TYA artists.
He and Deirdre Kelly Lavrakas are founding co-directors of the ground-breaking play development program New Visions/New Voices and co-edited: New Visions/New Voices: 25 Years/25 Plays (Dramatic Publishing, 2016). He is an artistic leader of the international network for TYA playwrights, Write Local Play Global, and was a long-time member of the boards of both the US and international service organizations for theaters for young audiences  In 2017 he was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre.