Bellingham Review Contributor
Nik Chang Hoon 임창훈 is a transracial Korean adoptee, memoirist, and poet based in Minneapolis. His work explores how transracial adoption unfolds as an ongoing experience that is generationally violent, emotionally traumatic, and physically embedded into the body. His poetry has appeared in The Plentitudes (Winter 2025 issue) and the Blue Earth Review (Runner-Up, 2024 Minnesota BIPOC Emerging Writer Award), and was a finalist in the 2024 MAYDAY Micro-chapbook Contest. His creative nonfiction has been recognized by The Iowa Review (Finalist, 2024 Iowa Review Award in Nonfiction). He is a 2024 alum of the Bread Loaf, Kenyon Review and Tin House writers workshops, as well as the The Loft Literary Center’s Year-Long Writing Project in Creative Nonfiction & Memoir. Learn more about Nik and his work at nikchanghoon.com.
Winner of the 2024 Annie Dillard Prize (Nonfiction) “Maybe my thinking has been wrong all along. Maybe silence is not something to interact with, to be filled in, but rather to let wash over you,…