Susan Kim
Writer for television, stage and print
Susan Kim is a writer of television, plays, graphic novels and non-fiction. She co-wrote Flow, a book on the cultural history of menstruation.
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About Susan Kim
Susan Kim has written for children's television and has been nominated for an Emmy five times. She also won a Writers Guild Award for best documentary, and she adapted Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club for the stage. With Laurence Klavan, she co-wrote the graphic novels City of Spies and Brain Camp. She has also taught writing at Goddard College and New York University. Flow was written with graphic designer Elissa Stein. It is a humorous non-fiction book for adults about how people, from the Ancient Egyptians to today, have attached fear, shame and sexism to menstruation.