2nd & 3rd Place, PTSA Annual Reflections Award, Literature Category (Poetry) – Escapade and Lost Things (2020)
National Winner, JUST POETRY National Poetry Quarterly – monsoon season (Jul 2020)
Finalist, Pulitzer Center Fighting Words Poetry Contest – River War (Jun 2020)
Best Written Piece, Braille Institute Creative Expressions Contest – smudge (May 2020)
“This beautiful poem [Kim's poem "This Side, Reimagined"] speaks directly into the legacy of Fitzgerald's literature and unfinished buildings. In an intertextual key, the poet converses across time with F. Scott's novel, creating sparks with each enjambment. In looking at war, the poem revises what man learns from it, turning the usual lesson on its head while placing this in the context of Fitzgerald's life. Daring and revolutionary in a soft way - in a way that challenges the modality and aggression of war itself - Kim recontextualizes the past in lyric." - Judge Alina Stefanescu (THIS SIDE, REIMAGINED)