London, 2019. Photo credit: AM.

London, 2019. Photo credit: Abigail Murdy.

Esther 윤경 Kim
is a writer
From New York
based in Taiwan.

김윤경(金潤璟) 미국계 한인 2세 작가, 한영번역가.



Esther Kim (b. 1990, New York) is a columnist for the Korea Times. She is the former Digital Communications Manager of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, a literary nonprofit in NYC, where she first started as freelance editor of The Margins (Monsoon Notebook), the award-winning literary magazine of the Workshop.

She had a career in books in New York City and London for nearly a decade. Her current book project has received support from Sterling College, Granta, and the Vermont Studio Center. 

You can find her essays and criticism on books and foods in places like the Guardian, The Nation, and White Review, among many others. Branded content clients include Condé Nast The New Yorker.

She holds a Masters in Korean Literature from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and a Masters in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. She earned her B.A. at Wellesley College near Boston. Research at all three institutions examined the literature and films of 1910-1940, documents of the First World War and colonial Korea.

 

Esther splits her time between Taiwan and New York. 🌻