Born in Daegu, South Korea, 김경수Mark Kyungsoo Bias is the author of the poetry collection Minor Destructions, winner of the 2025 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize and forthcoming in fall 2026.

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

A recipient of scholarships from Tin House, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and Kundiman, he is the winner 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.

He has taught for institutions such as the Juniper Institute for Young Writers, University Without Walls, The Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program, Grub Street, 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 and Winning Writers, as well as been anthologized in Best New Poets, Poetry Daily, and Afterlives: 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 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he was a REAL Fellow. He currently lives in Seoul.