Su Hwang

Su Hwang is a poet, activist, stargazer, and the author of Bodega (Milkweed Editions), which received the 2020 Minnesota Book Award in poetry and was named a finalist for the 2021 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Born in Seoul, Korea, she was raised in New York then called the Bay Area home before transplanting to the Midwest. A recipient of the Jerome Hill Fellowship in Literature, she works with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop and is the cofounder of Poetry Asylum with poet Sun Yung Shin. She is currently working on her second collection titled ARKS, and lives in Minneapolis.