Nik Chang Hoon 임창훈 (he/him) is a Korean transracial adoptee, memoirist and poet based in Minneapolis. His creative nonfiction won the 2024 Annie Dillard Prize and was named a finalist for The Iowa Review Award in nonfiction. His poetry has appeared in The Plentitudes (Winter 2025) and the Blue Earth Review (2024 Minnesota BIPOC Emerging Writer Award Runner-Up), and was named a 2024 MAYDAY Micro-chapbook Contest finalist. His most recent essay is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review.
Selected work
To the one who wrote me back
The Texas Review, 2025
NonfictionEssayMemoir
post- and pre-
Blue Earth Review, 2024
Poetry
도장 Dojang
The Plentitudes, 2025
Poetry
Abandoned supposings: A letter to my non-father’s silence - Bellingham Review
Bellingham Review, 2024
NonfictionEssayMemoir