WRITING
Novels & Essays
Yuliana Kim-Grant, the daughter of Korean transnational parents, was born in South Korea. She grew up in suburban Philadelphia. Despite the near-perfect All-American life, reading and writing were the activities that forgave this constant balancing act of being Korean and American. She attended the George Washington University where she received her BA in International Politics. She received her MFA in Creative Writing Fiction from Emerson College. She lives and works in Manhattan with her husband and son. Read more of Yuliana’s current writing on her YKG Blog and Medium.
A shred of Hope
An inexplicable tragedy striking a young Korean-American woman, Jane Park, and her African American husband, Terence Patterson, defines the endpoint of this exquisite mosaic of a novel.
The World Divided
Third Place Runner Up. Published in SLAB: The Sound and Literary Art Book of Slippery Rock University. Creative Nonfiction Judge: Dr. Faith Adiele. Published 2006.
Middle passage
First appeared in “Three Ring Circus: How Real Couples Balance Marriage, Work, and Family”. Edited by Dawn Comer Jefferson and Rosanne Welch. Foreword by James P. Comer, M.D. Published by Seal Press, 2004.
Race(ism) 101
This essay reflects on the Sa-I-Gu LA Riots. It first appeared on KoreanAmericanStory.com.
In her private life, she has known many women who had overcome challenges, who turned these moments as an opportunity to reshape the course of their lives personally or professionally. Her personal experience of her nervous breakdown and hospitalization, which felt like a death and rebirth of sorts helped shape her perspective in creating Phoenix Tales. Originally Phoenix Tales was on Instagram Live with her interviewing 10 extraordinary women with wildly different stories. She found the interview format was a good fit for her own natural curiosity she has always had about other people and her own understanding of how to craft a narrative in telling stories. Nearly a year from the inception of her idea to interview other women, Phoenix Tales Podcast released its first episode. She quickly saw the potential for this platform to become a space where women felt empowered in their own experience and, more importantly, to feel empowered in the telling of those stories. With each new interviewee, a community is being created of many Phoenixes. She hopes each listener feels themselves a part of this growing community of women with grace and grit.
Digging deeper with yoga
YOGA THERAPY
Yuliana believes in yoga’s potentially therapeutic and healing possibilities, yet she could see how a deeper study into the application of yogic tools—postures/exercise, breathwork, meditation techniques, and more—to address an individual’s physical, mental and emotional needs could be beneficial for herself, and ultimately for her students and clients. She began her Yoga Therapy studies in 2016 with Prema Yoga Institute and is certified under the International Association of Yoga Therapists.
