Hana Kim

Hana Kim is the director of the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library at the University of Toronto and a former head of the Asian Library at the University of British Columbia. Before this, she was the Korean Studies Librarian at the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library for 11 years.  She holds an M.L.I.S. in Library and Information Studies from McGill University and a Bachelor of Education from the Korea National University of Education. She is the author of multiple book chapters and journal articles in library and information science. Her research interests include Asian Canadian heritage and various areas or issues in East Asian libraries and East Asian librarianship (library and collection management, digital humanities, area studies librarianship). In 2009, in collaboration with the University of British Columbia, she launched a nationwide Korean Canadian Heritage Archives Project.

In her time away from work, she enjoys translating poetry. 2H₂+O₂=2H₂O and her 16 other poems won the Sunshik Min Prize of the 2008 Min Chapbook Competition, co-hosted by Harvard University’s Korean Institute and Tamal Vista Publications. She is also a recipient of the Korea Times’ 41st Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards – Poetry Division. Apart from translating Love is the Pain of Feverish Flowers (Seoul Selection, 2016), she has also contributed translations and original poems to various publications including Variety Crossing and Han Kŭt: Critical Art and Writing by Korean Canadian Women (Inanna Publications, 2007).