Andrew Chi Keong Yim was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. His debut poetry collection, The Ninth Island, is forthcoming from University of Pittsburgh Press on February 9, 2027.

Yim was awarded the 2024 New Voices Award in Poetry from Washington Square Review, selected by Terrance Hayes, and is a 2025 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship finalist. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, Alaska Quarterly Review, either/or magazine, The Hopkins Review, No, Dear Magazine, and other publications.

Andrew has taught with the Wisconsin Prison Humanities Project and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was the Martha Meir Renk Distinguished Graduate Fellow in poetry and received the August Derleth Prize for fiction. He lives in Queens and is a New York City Public Schools teacher.

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