Visiting Professor
Sandra Lim is the author of the poetry collection 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 the Levis Reading Prize; and Loveliest Grotesque (Kore Press, 2006). The Curious Thing was published in a Swedish translation, En märklig sak, by Rámus Förlag in 2024.
Her honors include the 2023 Jackson Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as fellowships from MacDowell, the Getty Foundation, and the Hawthornden Foundation. Her writing has appeared in journals such as The New York Review of Books, Poetry, The Baffler, The Yale Review, The New York Times, The New Republic, and elsewhere. She was named the 2023 Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where she teaches creative writing and literature.
Born in Seoul, Korea, Lim received her BA in English from Stanford University, her PhD in English from the University of California Berkeley, and her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She lives in Cambridge, MA