Hana Kim

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Toronto



Hana Kim is the Korea Studies Librarian at the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library of the University of Toronto, and is also a translator. She obtained a National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters accreditation in Australia. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Education (German Language and English Language) from the Korea National University of Education in South Korea. She earned a master’s degree in Library and Information Studies from McGill University in Canada.

Hana is an active translator. She has also contributed translations and original poems to various publications including the yearly anthology journal Variety Crossing, which promotes multiculturalism in Canada, and Critical Art and Writing by Korean Canadian Women (Toronto: Inanna Publications and Education, 2007). She won the Sunshik Min Prize of the First Annual Min Chapbook Competition for her translation of poems by Chunhak Kwon (Cheonhak Kwon). She is the translator of 2H2 + O2 = 2H2O, (Larkspur, CA: Tamal Vista Publications, 2011).

Besides her interest in translating, her research interests include collaborative collection development, Asian Canadian heritage (Korean Canadian heritage in particular), and diversity issues.