Jinah Kim is the author of Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas (Duke UP, 2019). A recipient of an NEH fellowship, California Civil Liberties Grant, and the Andrew Mellon fellowship, her research, teaching, and activism focus on the transnational mobilization for the Comfort Women, ending the Korean War, and Asian/American pop culture. She is currently an Associate Professor at CSUN. Born in Seoul, Korea, she immigrated to the US when she was 8. She now lives in Los Angeles with her partner Peter, and their two young children.