Isabel J. Kim

Isabel J. Kim is a Korean-American speculative fiction writer based in New York City. She is a Shirley Jackson Award winner, an Astounding Award finalist, and her short fiction has been published in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Strange Horizons, among other venues. When she’s not writing, she’s either practicing law or co-hosting her internet culture podcast Wow if True—both equally noble pursuits.

1. 2021-03-00 “Homecoming Is Just Another Word for the Sublimation of the Self”
2. 2021-08-00 “You’ll Understand When You’re a Mom Someday”
3. 2021-11-16 “AP Practical Literary Theory Suggests This is a Quest (Or: What Danny Did Over Spring Break)”
4. 2022-01-27 “Clay”
5. 2022-02-00 “Plausible Realities, Improbable Dreams”
6. 2022-02-00 “The Massage Lady at Munjeong Road Bathhouse”
7. 2022-03-00 “Christopher Mills, Return to Sender”
8. 2022-06-09 “You, Me, Her, You, Her, I”
9. 2022-07-00 “Termination Stories for the Cyberpunk Dystopia Protagonist”
10. 2022-11-00 “ Calf Cleaving in the Benthic Black”
11. 2023-01-00 “The Big Glass Box and the Boys Inside”
12. 2023-01-00 “The Narrative Implications of Your Untimely Death”
13. 2023-03-00 “Zeta-Epsilon”
14. 2023-06-00 “Day Ten Thousand”
15. 2023-08-00 “You Will Not Live to See M/M Horrors Beyond Your Comprehension”
16. R 2024-02-00 “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole”