36: Angie Kim, author of Miracle Creek

Published: Aug. 8, 2019, 9:30 a.m.

"Why do mothers have to say out loud that they enjoy every single moment of being a mother? Because we don’t. There are times when you have these thoughts of escape." - Angie Kim

Angie Kim moved as a preteen from Seoul, South Korea, to the suburbs of Baltimore. She attended Stanford University and Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, then practiced as a trial lawyer at Williams & Connolly. Her stories have won the Glamour Essay Contest and the Wabash Prize in Fiction, and appeared in numerous publications including Vogue, The New York TimesThe Washington Post, SalonSlateThe Southern ReviewSycamore ReviewThe Asian American Literary Review, and PANK. She lives in northern Virginia with her husband and three sons. Miracle Creek is her first novel.

Connect with Angie on her website, Instagram or Twitter.

 

Angie's book recommendation: The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer

 

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