Legal, Poetic, and Social Justice with Novelist Angie Kim

Angie Kim is the debut author of the international bestseller and Edgar Award winner Miracle Creek, named a “Best Book of the Year” by Time, The Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, and "The Today Show," among others. Her novel also won the ITW Thriller Award, the Strand Critics’ Award, and the Pinckley Prize. A Korean immigrant, former editor of the Harvard Law Review, and one of Variety Magazine’s inaugural “10 Storytellers to Watch,” Kim has written for Vogue, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Glamour, and numerous literary journals. She lives in Northern Virginia.

Contact Dr. Erin Hogan (ekhogan@umbc.edu) for more information.

Co-sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities and the Asian Studies Program.

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