Crystal Hana Kim
Reading, Q&A, Book Signing
Center for Korean Studies Auditorium
Thursday, September 18, 2025
1:30-3pm

Crystal Hana Kim is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Stone Home (2024), a finalist for the Maya Angelou Book Prize and longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Award, and If You Leave Me (2018), which was named a best book of 2018 by over a dozen publications. Kim is the recipient of the 2022 National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award and the winner of a 2017 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.
Hee Kyung Lee Kwon Speaker Series

Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures

This speaker series is dedicated to the celebration of Korean women’s literature and culture. It will feature individuals who have made a significant contribution to the field as authors, artists, translators, scholars, etc. The series was made possible thanks to the generous contribution of Esther Arinaga to commemorate her mother, Hee Kyung Lee Kwon. Hee Kyung Lee Kwon was born in Daegu in 1894 and emigrated to Hawai‘i in 1912, where she supported the Korean Independence Movement abroad from 1915 to 1945.

Co-sponsored by Center for Korean Studies, Department of English, UHM Creative Writing Program, Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Prof. David Krolikoski (dkroli@hawaii.edu).