Yong Nan Kim

July 02nd, 2025

In Off the Map: Vancouver Writers with Lived Experience of Mental Health Issues (Bell Press Books $22), edited by Betsy Warland, Seema Shah and Kate Bird, Yong Nan Kim’s poetry “Dreaming with Ghosts” brings the otherworldly close to home. A standout moment comes in her piece where ancestral memory collides with loss: “days before grandmother passed away / i dream with my grandmother / her face glows like the full moon / she says i’m not dead yet!” These lines echo through Kim’s broader body of work—poetry and ghost stories inspired by her Korean heritage and childhood in Paraguay and Brazil. When she’s not writing, she hikes, snowshoes, or learns new dance moves. 9781738716791

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