Born in Daegu, South Korea, 김경수 Mark Kyungsoo Bias is a recipient of the 2022 Joseph Langland Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets and the 2020 William Matthews Poetry Prize from the Asheville Poetry Review selected by Ilya Kaminsky.

His work has been published or is forthcoming in AGNI, New England Review, Gulf Coast, Georgia Review, Cero Magazine, The Adroit Journal, Narrative, Best New Poets, The Offing, Hayden Ferry’s Review, The Common, Washington Square Review, and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s The Margins, among other journals.

A 2021 “Without Borders” Tin House Scholar, he has been offered a “Contributor Award” from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and scholarships from Kundiman, as well as recognition from the Saejowi Initiative for National Integration, which seeks to provide aid to North Korean refugees.

He has taught at institutions such as the Juniper Institute for Young Writers, University Without Walls, The Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program, Grub Street, Ellipses, and is the founder of MKB Studios: an online database of creative writing classes with the intent of being financially accessible and logistically convenient.

Nominated for Best of the Net, his work has been featured in Literary Hub, Poetry Daily, Winning Writers, and AGNI‘s digital portfolio for Asian Adoptee diaspora. He holds an MA in Literature from the College of New Jersey, and an MFA in Poetry as well as a Graduate Film Certificate in Korean Cinema from the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he was a REAL Fellow. He currently lives in Seoul.