Katherine Yungmee Kim is a writer and journalist based in Los Angeles, California. She is the author of Longitude (Datz Press, 2021) and Los Angeles’s Koreatown (Arcadia Publishing, 2010). She runs the Koreatown Storytelling Program and the K-Town is Your Town community photo project. Currently, she is the Senior Editor at the Koreatown Youth and Community Center, the nation’s oldest and largest Korean American non-profit organization.

Katherine was a reporter and editor at The Cambodia Daily, The Korea Herald, Yonhap News Agency, Far Eastern Economic Review and KoreAm Journal. She has worked extensively with youth in immigrant communities and edited two publications—​Izote Vos: A Collection of Salvadoran American Writing and Visual Art​, and ​Quietly Torn, a Literary Journal by Young Iu Mien American Women—with Pacific News Service. Her community journalism projects have been funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Community Foundation, the Eisner Foundation and California Humanities.

She is the recipient of the Time Out Grant from Vassar College, a New America Media Education Fellowship, a Columbia University School of the Arts Chair’s Fiction Fellowship, and the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

Born in New Jersey, and raised in Seoul, Korea and Harvard, Massachusetts, Katherine studied English Literature and Art History at Vassar College, Pomona College and the University of California, Berkeley. She has her MFA in Fiction from the Writing Division at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.