Jungmin Kim has been navigating borderlands since before she was born and has never been allowed to stop.  She is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at Cornell University; her thesis examines intersections of race, gender, and property in American literature.  Both her academic and creative writing explore the power of narratives to make, un-make, and re-make barriers and bridges between nations, diaspora communities, family generations, and individual souls.