KIM-AN LIEBERMAN is a writer of Vietnamese and Jewish American descent, born in Rhode Island and raised in the Pacific Northwest. She studied interdisciplinary humanities at the University of Washington before earning a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. Currently a faculty member at Seattle's Lakeside School, she has taught writing and literature at every level from 5th grade through college.
Kim-An's debut collection of poetry, Breaking the Map, was published in 2008 by Blue Begonia Press. Her poems and essays have also appeared in Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, ZYZZYVA, CALYX, Threepenny Review, and the anthology Asian America.Net: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Cyberspace. A recipient of awards from the Jack Straw Writers Program and the Mellon Foundation for the Humanities, she has been a featured reader at literary festivals and venues including Richard Hugo House, Seattle Public Libraries, Rainbow Bookfest, Portland's Wordstock Festival, and the Asian American Writers' Workshop in New York.