Kim is a scriptwriter and fiction writer. She currently teaches the three script writing modules at Edge Hill, as well as first year fiction.
After attending drama school, Kim worked in theatre for a few years before deciding to take her writing seriously, so she enrolled on the MA Creative Writing course at MMU. Following that, she took her PhD part time at Lancaster University, exploring the representation of gender, and especially masculinity, through both critical and creative work.
Her first short play, The Loser, was produced in 2009 by Scenepool at Camden People’s Theatre. Her first full length play Joy With Child, for which she was mentored by Charlotte Keatley through North West Playwrights, was produced in Manchester in 2010 by Organised Chaos. She is currently working on her second full length play with North West Playwrights, ‘Manchester Calling’, as well as recently being awarded Grants for the Arts ACE funding to work with fellow theatre maker Paul Hine on Project XXX, a piece of multi-media theatre that will explore the growing acceptance in youth culture of internet pornography.
She was worked on several short films through Lime Arts, Lets Go Global and Burnley Youth Theatre and has been commissioned to write both plays and screenplays for young people.
Her short fiction has appeared in Transmission Magazine, Commonword’s ‘Migration Stories’, which was part of the Moving Manchester project and most recently her monologue appeared in the Good Ear Review.
She has recently worked with Lime Arts on creative project with young people with cystic fibrosis called CF Transitions, and her evaluation of the project is soon to appear in UNESCO’s e-journal about Youth Arts.
Her main research interests include gender representation, masculinity, feminism and arts and health.