Christine Kwon is a Korean American poet and fiction writer. Her debut poetry collection, A Ribbon the Most Perfect Blue, won the Cowles Poetry Book Prize (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2023).
She lives in a yellow shotgun house in New Orleans with her partner, her son, and their three cats, Trotsky, Lady (Murasaki), and (Cy) Twombly. She is the literary editor at Tilted House Press.
Her work has appeared in The Poetry Project, Joyland Magazine, Salamander, Copper Nickel, and The Harvard Advocate, among other places.
She attended Yale and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.