Cover Photo: a large warm wooden desk with a laptop stand, laptop, lamp, breast pump, painting, papers, and pen atop; desk is pushed against a white wall decorated with lemon decals
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Where Crystal Hana Kim Writes

Before, this room was full of books, a reading chair, plants. Now we’ve got a crib, a changing table, a glider. I’ve kept my desk, though.

Photograph courtesy of the author

Photograph courtesy of the author

Photograph courtesy of the author


Crystal Hana Kim is the author of If You Leave Me, which was a Booklist Editor’s Choice title and named a best book of 2018 by over a dozen publications. A 2022 recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award and a 2017 PEN Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize winner, she is also a contributing editor at Apogee Journal.