My poems can make a difference!

Nik Chang Hoon 임창훈 is a transracial adoptee, nonfiction writer and poet. He is the winner of the 2024 Annie Dillard Prize for Creative Nonfiction, Runner-up to the 2024 Minnesota BIPOC Emerging Writer in Poetry award, and an alum of the Bread Loaf, Tin House & Kenyon Review writers workshops. Through all his artistic work, Nik aims to center the experiences of adoptees and their first (biological) families, normalize discussion of adoption as a form of personal and intergenerational trauma and advocate for equitable access to adoption-informed mental health care. In his past lives Nik has worked as a DEI practitioner, executive speechwriter, political communications director, writing center instructor and Korean high school English teacher. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with his wife Hyein and their spoiled golden doodle, Penny. You can learn more at nikchanghoon.com or find him on Instagram (@nikchanghoon) and Blusky (@nikchanghoon.bsky.social).

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