B I O G R A P H Y

Kim-Ling Sun was raised in Singapore before immigrating to the States.  She earned her B.A. and M.A. in English at the University of Houston. As a mixed race Chinese American writer, her life experiences living in the margins inform her work.  She is also a freelance writer for an educational company.

As part of the local writing community, Kim-Ling Sun also teaches creative writing camps for WITS (Writers In The Schools) inspiring young adults to find their voice. In May of 2021 she received a project grant from Poets & Writers. The city-wide celebration of Asian American culture she helped organize and host entitled “Celebrate, Stop the Hate” where AAPI writers performed as part of the celebration and local youth were invited to join writing workshops that celebrated the diversity of Houston.

Kim-Ling Sun is also a freelance writer for bestcolleges.com where she writes about First Generation college students, the AAPI community, and women’s issues.

In addition to her writing life, Kim-Ling Sun has been an educator for the past eighteen years.  She is currently a Dual Credit English professor at a local Houston high school.  She has earned the designation of the John P. McGovern Foundation as a Master Teacher since 2014, receiving this honor each subsequent year. In 2018, she was a Humanities Texas recipient of the Outstanding Teacher of the Humanities Award for the state of Texas. In the Spring of 2021 she was selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities to be 1 of 25 educators to attend the prestigious Folger Shakespeare Summer Institute.