Eugenia Kim’s debut novel, The Calligrapher’s Daughter, won the Borders Original Voices Award, was shortlisted for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and was a Washington Post Best Historical Novel and Critic’s Pick. Her second novel, The Kinship of Secrets, received a starred review from Booklist, and was an Amazon Best Book of the Month, Literature and Fiction. She teaches at Fairfield University’s MFA Creative Writing Program.