ABOUT SUQI KAREN
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYSuqi Karen Sims was raised in Taichung, Taiwan. Her fiction, creative nonfiction, and food writing has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, MSU Roadrunner Review, CALYX, and others.
Her work has received the Steven R. Guthrie Memorial Writers’ Festival Contest prize in fiction and the Margarita Donnelly Prize in Prose. She serves as an Assistant Editor at Five Points and contributes critical essays.
She graduated from Davidson College and received her Master’s in Journalism, Literary Reportage from New York University. She is a doctoral candidate in English and Creative Writing at Georgia State University.
TEACHING EXPERIENCESuqi Karen Sims teaches composition and creative writing, including:
Introduction to Composition I & II
Introduction to Writing: Food & Identity
Introduction to Creative Writing - Fiction
Narrative Techniques
“While food in Pride and Prejudice represents a guide to the most blissful domesticity, food in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening is often an electric symbol for temptation, in particular, sexual temptation away from the home and husband.” Read more.
Critical essay excerpt from “Pride and Prejudice & The Awakening: What is food if not domestication or temptation?” on the Five Points website