About

Sandra Lim’s latest collection of poetry is The Givens (2027), forthcoming in the U.S. by W.W. Norton and in the U.K. by Corsair/Little, Brown. Her previous books of poetry include The Curious Thing (W.W. Norton, 2021), The Wilderness (W.W. Norton, 2014), winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize selected by Louise Glück, and Loveliest Grotesque (Kore Press, 2006). Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The Yale Review, Poetry, The Baffler, The New Republic, and elsewhere. Lim is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Jackson Poetry Prize, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Levis Reading Prize, and multiple Pushcart Prizes, as well as fellowships from MacDowell and the Hawthornden Foundation. In 2023, she was named Distinguished University Professor at UMass Lowell, where she teaches creative writing and literature. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

She is represented by The Wylie Agency in New York and London.