ABOUT SUQI KAREN
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYSuqi Karen Sims was born and raised in sunny Taichung, Taiwan. Her fiction, creative nonfiction, and food writing have appeared in various publications and have won multiple awards. She lives in Atlanta.
Publications
Suqi’s work has received the Steven R. Guthrie Memorial Writers’ Festival Contest prize in fiction (“Raohe Night Market”) and the Margarita Donnelly Prize in Prose (“Niwawa”). She was a finalist for the Pinch Literary Award (“Peach Boy Momotaro”) and Fractured Lit’s Elsewhere Prize (“The Ox and the Magpies”). She was formerly an Assistant Editor at Five Points, where she published critical essays for the blog.
Education
Suqi graduated from Davidson College and received her Master’s in Journalism with a concentration in Literary Reportage from New York University. Her Ph.D. in English with a concentration in Creative Writing, fiction is from Georgia State University, where she teaches.
TEACHING EXPERIENCECourses Taught:
Introduction to Composition I & II
Introduction to Writing: Food & Identity
Introduction to Creative Writing - Fiction
Narrative Techniques
“While food in Pride and Prejudice represents a guide to the most blissful domesticity, food in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening is often an electric symbol for temptation, in particular, sexual temptation away from the home and husband.” Read more.
Critical essay excerpt from “Pride and Prejudice & The Awakening: What is food if not domestication or temptation?” on the Five Points website