Yuliana Kim-Grant

A woman with shoulder-length light brown hair, wearing a blue blouse with white pattern, sitting at a wooden table in a bright room. She is resting her chin on her left hand, which is adorned with a red gemstone ring. In front of her, there is a stack of six books, including 'The Anomaly' by Hervé Le Tellier, 'Sang Young Park', 'Love in the Big City', and other titles. The background has a white brick wall and a large window with light curtains.

Yuliana Kim-Grant

Yuliana Kim-Grant is a Korean American author whose work explores identity, belonging, and family. Born in South Korea and raised in suburban Philadelphia, she earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and is the author of A Shred of Hope and The Tide Comes Around. In addition to writing fiction, she is a yoga instructor and yoga therapist. She lives in New York City with her husband and son.

Author

Woman doing a split on the floor, writing in a notebook, with candles, stacks of books, and a glass of water nearby, against a brick wall.

Publications

  • Novel

    Penelope, an American woman of Korean descent, has exiled herself to Los Angeles to escape a complicated love affair and her beloved brother’s suicide, the tragic consequence of another life-defining event that occurred years before.

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  • Novel

    An inexplicable tragedy striking a young Korean American woman, Jane Park, and her African American husband, Terence Patterson, defines the endpoint of this exquisite mosaic of a novel.

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  • Essay

    Third Place Runner Up. Published in SLAB: The Sound and Literary Art Book of Slippery Rock University. Creative Nonfiction Judge: Dr. Faith Adiele. Published 2006.

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  • Essay

    First appeared in “Three Ring Circus: How Real Couples Balance Marriage, Work, and Family”. Edited by Dawn Comer Jefferson and Rosanne Welch. Foreword by James P. Comer, M.D. Published by Seal Press, 2004.

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  • Essay

    This essay reflects on the Sa-I-Gu LA Riots. It first appeared on KoreanAmericanStory.com

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