Her maternal great-grandfather co-founded 조선어학회, the Korean Language Society, during the Japanese occupation of Korea.
[2][3][4] Kim's work has been published in Best American Poetry, The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, New Statesman, Irish Examiner, Slate, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, London Magazine, Poetry London, Poetry, recorded for BBC Radio (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001r1cf, "Notes from Utopia, Inc." at 29:50, and https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001rhkj, "Sono" at 29:35), National Public Radio,[5] Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Free Genoa, Radio Free Amsterdam, Poetry Unbound and The Slowdown; and translated into German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Croatian, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, and Bengali.
[6][7][8] Choral and vocal settings of her poems, composed by Mayako Kubo for the Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus, Chorusorganisation, Koreanische Frauengruppe Berlin, and Japanische Fraueninitiative Berlin, premiered at Pablo Casals Hall, Tokyo, and were performed at St. Mathias Church, Berlin and St. Geltow Church, Potsdam.
Vocal settings of her work, composed by Jerome Blais, premiered at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, recorded by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), then were later performed by the Solera Quartet at the Art Institute of Chicago, May 2019, and recorded by WFMT-Chicago.
Kim co-authored Private Property, a multimedia play showcased at Playwrights Horizons (NY) and produced at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland).