Mia Kang is the author of City Poems (ignitionpress, 2020) and the winner of the 2023 Airlie Prize for All Empires Must (Airlie Press, 2025). A poet and artist, she lives in Philadelphia with two cats. In 2022-2023, she was an inaugural iLAB artist-in-residence at University of the Arts.
In 2023, Mia joined the Philadelphia Folklore Project as Executive Director. From 2020-2023, she was Interim Director of the Museo del Westside, a project of the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, in San Antonio, Texas. She occasionally takes on non-profit consulting projects, with a focus on development and organizational change.
Mia is also a doctoral candidate at Yale University, where she is completing a dissertation on the contested rise of U.S. multiculturalism in the visual arts. She is a 2023-2024 Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Dissertation Award recipient. Recent publications include contributions to Roxy Paine: The Dioramas (Skira, 2021), The Life and Times of Alvin Baltrop (Skira, 2019), Sanford Biggers: Codeswitch (Yale University Press, 2020), Published by Lugemik: Printed Matter from 2010-2019 (Lugemik, 2019), and Plot magazine. Formerly a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, she teaches as an adjunct lecturer at Hunter College, CUNY, her alma mater.