Monika Kim

Monika Kim is a second-generation Korean American writer based in Los Angeles's Koreatown. Her mother moved to Los Angeles from Seoul in 1985 and taught her the Korean superstitions that inspired her debut horror novel, The Eyes Are the Best Part, a Sunday Times bestseller that won the 2024 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel and was named a book of the year by the New York Times and TIME. Her follow-up, Molka, examines Korea's hidden spy-camera voyeurism crisis.