Crystal Hana Kim’s debut novel If You Leave Me was named a best book of 2018 by the Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, Literary Hub, ALA Booklist, and more. She was a 2017 PEN America Dau Short Story Prize winner and has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Hedgebrook, Jentel, among others. Her work has been published in the Washington Post, Elle Magazine, the Paris Review, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She is a contributing editor at Apogee Journal.