An international bestseller, Juhea Kim's debut novel Beasts of a Little Land was a finalist for the 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. It won the 2024 Yasnaya Polyana Award, the largest annual literary prize in Russia awarded by the Leo Tolstoy Museum-Estate. She donated the entire prize money to the conservation of Siberian tigers and Amur leopards. Published in fourteen countries to date, Beasts of a Little Land has been optioned for a TV series. Praised for its “lyrical, cinematic writing. . .stylistic brilliance. . .and greatness” by The Washington Post, her second novel City of Night Birds was a Reese’s Book Club pick and published in 6 countries to date. Her third book, A Love Story from the End of the World, is forthcoming in November 2025 in the US and UK. Her fiction, nonfiction, and journalism have been published in numerous international outlets. She has given lectures at preeminent institutions around the world, including Seoul National University, Yonsei University, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of São Paulo. Born in Incheon and raised in Portland, Oregon, she graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Art and Archaeology. An ethical vegan since the age of nineteen, and a goodwill ambassador for the Korean Tiger Leopard Conservation Fund, Kim dedicates a portion of proceeds of each of her books to conservation, animal rights, and development and aid in Africa. She lives in London.
