Sang Kim was born in South Korea and raised in Canada since 1975. His play Ballad Of A Karaoke Cowboy first appeared in a University of Toronto literary magazine in 1992. Kim lives in Toronto where he is also a chef and restaurateur. Kim is also a blogger and hosts Sushi Making for the Soul workshops. One of his stories is included in The Marginal Ride Anthology.
Drama
Ballad Of A Karaoke Cowboy
Willowdale, ON: Korean Canadian Literary Forum-21 Press, 2007.
Distributor: Toronto: Variety Crossing Press.
PS8621 .I5446 B34 2007
Publisher’s Synopsis (from distributor’s website)
Ballad Of A Karaoke Cowboy is set between an abandoned log cabin off an Indian reserve in northern Ontario and a karaoke bar in downtown Toronto. It is the story of a young Chinese man who loses his “self” in the world of karaoke and the myth of the western cowboy. It is also the story of his “damsel-in-distress”, an ESL student, who attempts to understand the karaoke cowboy’s predicament and identifies with his plight as a person in the new world.
Drama
A Dream Called Laundry
Toronto: KCLF-21 Publication, 2006.
Distributor: Variety Crossing Press.
PS8621 .I5446 D74 2006
Publisher’s Synopsis (from distributor’s website)
It’s the 1970’s in Toronto, Canada. A difficult, middle-aged Korean woman is haunted by her sometimes horrific and beautiful past. Soo, 52, a former “comfort woman”– a sex slave for the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II – finds herself trapped between the darkly poetic prison of her past and the oppressive freedom of her present. A Dream Called Laundry delves into the darkest corners of human emotion.
Anthology (Short stories)
CVC: Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology Series. Book Three
Kim, Sang. “When John Lennon Died.” In CVC: Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology Series. Book Three. Selected by and with a preface by Gloria Vanderbilt. Holstein, Ont.: Exile Editions, 2013, 15-24.
This story was declared Best Story by an emerging writer in the 3rd annual CVC competition.
Anthology (Short stories)
CVC: Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology Series. Book Six
Kim, Sang. “Kimchi.” In CVC: Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology Series. Book Six. Selected by and with a preface by Gloria Vanderbilt. Holstein, Ont.: Exile Editions, 2016, 46-56.