Lydia Kim is a writer based in California with work in phoebe journal, Nat.Brut, Peatsmoke, The Hellebore, and Longleaf Review, Catapult (RIP), Okay Donkey (Aug 2025), and Ploughshares (Jan 2026), as well as the print anthologies And If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing and Non-White and Woman. She is a 2024-25 Tin House Reading Fellow, a reader for Electric Lit, and alum of the Tin House and Kenyon writing workshops. That's her dog to the left!

 

She's grateful for the generous support of the de Groot Foundation fellowship and the San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Fiction Award. Currently at work on a novel and a short story collection, she's trying to read as much as possible, and her favorites lately include: DEARBORN, THE HAUNTING OF HAJJI HOTEK, BLISS MONTAGE, RAINBOW RAINBOW, THE BEST POSSIBLE EXPERIENCE, OPEN THROAT, THE BEE STING, and SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE. 

 

In her other working hours, she crafts brand architectures, strategy for creative campaigns, go-to-market strategy for product launches, and turnkey pitches for brands in categories like financial services, CPG, retail, educaional tech/fintech, medicine, and hospitality. Past clients include Target, MetLife, Unilever, Hershey, Safeway, Northwestern Mutual, Visa, Nissan, and Gatorade, among others. And the SF 49ers! She also designs workshops and projects for workplaces around emotional labor and defining team culture and values.

 

Her niece is also a writer, borough champion of the Ezra James Keats book contest and first place poetry winner for Cricket Magazine, as well as the author of many stories, poems, and essays.