© K Ho 2023
Hello!
My name is K. I'm a writer and photographer. For my photography services, please click here. For writing, scroll down. Thank you for visiting!
Biography
K Ho is a writer and photographer from Vancouver BC, the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlilwəta’Ɂɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) peoples. They are the winner of The Fiddlehead’s 2021 Creative Nonfiction Contest, and their work has appeared in The Margins:
Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Resonance: Essays on the Craft and Life of Writing, PRISM International, THEM lit, the Canadian National Arts Centre, and elsewhere. A 2023 Tin House Fellow and a 2018 VONA Fellow, they are a graduate of the University of Minnesota's Creative Writing MFA. They live in Minneapolis, Dakota territory, where they are teaching English and Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota and working on a novel.
Select Publications
"Readiness Assessment Form," The Margins: Asian American Writers' Workshop, Autumn 2023
"Lines," So To Speak Journal, Summer 2023
"Autobiography of this Essay," Resonance: Essays on the Life and Craft of Writing, Anvil Press 2022
"Dispatches," Winner of The Fiddlehead's 2021 Creative Nonfiction Contest Winner, Autumn 2021
Interview, The Fiddlehead, Autumn 2021
"recovery poem," PRISM International, Fall 2021, Issue 60.1
"Lunch with Hot Girls," emerge 2019, Simon Fraser University
"arrival,"THEM lit, 2017, Issue III
Events
July 2024: Anderson Center Residency (Red Wing, MN)
Nov-Dec 2023: Grand Marais Art Colony Residency (Grand Marias, MN)
Sept 14, 2023, 7:30pm, Milkweed UMN Faculty/Student Reading Series, 1011 Washington Ave. S @ Milkweed Books (Minneapolis, MN)
July 2023: Tin House Summer Workshop (Portland, OR)
June 2023: Tofte Lake Minnesota BIPOC Artist Residency (Tofte Lake, MN)
March 19 2023, 5pm: Mill City Reading Series @ Magers and Quinn Bookstore (Minneapolis, MN)
Contact
Send me an email if you'd like to get in touch!
Author photo (top): Photos by K Ho
Author photo (bottom): Tarik Dobbs