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 as the winner of a regional first-book contest. 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 receipient 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 Seattle Public Libraries, Richard Hugo House, Rainbow Bookfest, Portland's Wordstock Festival, and the Asian American Writers' Workshop in New York.