Jimin Han (B.A., Cornell University; M.F.A., Sarah Lawrence College)
has published nonfiction and fiction in The NuyorAsian Anthology,
Global City Review, The Asian American Pacific Journal and
EssentialMom.com, among others. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.
Links
to samples of her work
Essentialmom.com
- Green Acres
Global City Review
The NuyorAsian Anthology
Other
Excerpt from Meeda's Gate (upcoming novel)
"My OBGYN says she's not surprised that a Columbia University student
was murdered by a Korean man. Don't you remember a while ago the same
thing happened at Collins College. A Korean student held four people
hostage in a dorm and then killed one of them? You see, Koreans again.
We Chinese are told from when we're very young that Koreans are too
passionate for their own good.
I'm offended but I'm not sure why. Passion is a questionable word.
Because she's not a Korean person saying this and I am or because in
her Oz-glittery red shoes and black and white striped dress, Dr. Chung
is the most fashionable doctor in midtown and confidence glows about
her. Or because she's talking about a violent death and the genes we
carry that can set this violence off and my baby is floating on the
sonogram monitor. Or because she's talking about something she knows
nothing about. Nothing at all. Nothing. And it pisses me off. Her
summation. She wasn't at Collins that year. But I was. And I
couldn't tell you anything about passion or love or Koreans or why or
who could have stopped all of us from ending up in that room in
December ten years ago with a shotgun pointing at our heads."