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Catherine Chung | |
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| Born | Evanston, Illinois |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago; |
| Genre | novel |
Catherine Chung is a Korean-American writer whose first novel, Forgotten Country, received an Honorable Mention for the 2013 PEN/Hemingway Award,[1] and was an Indie Next Pick,[2] one of Booklist's 10 Best Debut Novels of 2012,[3] and one of Bookpage's Best Books of 2012.[4][5][6] She received a 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing [7], and was recognized in 2010 by Granta magazine as one of its "New Voices" of the year.[8]
Early life and education
Chung was born in Evanston, Illinois,[6] and has a brother.[8] She grew up in New York, New Jersey and Michigan.[6]
She graduated with a mathematics degree from the University of Chicago, and worked at the think tank The RAND Corporation before attending Cornell University to receive her MFA.[6]
Career
Chung's critically acclaimed debut novel, Forgotten Country, was published in 2012 by Riverhead Books, a division of Penguin Press.[5] She has also published short stories and essays in The New York Times,[9] The Rumpus,[10] and Granta,[11] and was the recipient of a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize in Poetry.[12]
She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and Jentel, and received support for her writing from The Camargo Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation.[13] She was a Picador Guest Professor at The University of Leipzig, and is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Adelphi University.[14][15] She is a fiction editor at Guernica Magazine.[16]
References
- ^ http://hemingwaysociety.org/?page_id=688
- ^ http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781594488085/catherine-chung/forgotten-country
- ^ http://www.booklistonline.com/ProductInfo.aspx?pid=5730874&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
- ^ http://bookpage.com/bestof2012
- ^ a b Jan Stuart, Fiction Chronicle" "New Books by Jon McGregor and Others", New York Times, 22 April 2012
- ^ a b c d "Korean-American author’s riveting tale of family secrets", Korea Herald, 1 June 2012, accessed 13 March 2013
- ^ http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-nea-announces-2014-creative-writing-fellowships-20131211,0,7864702.story#axzz2pqDJAQsm
- ^ a b Patrick Ryan (21 March 2012). "Interview: Catherine Chung". Granta. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
- ^ http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/novel-neighborhoods/
- ^ http://therumpus.net/2013/04/yellow-peril-and-the-american-dream/
- ^ http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Wish
- ^ http://www.dorothyprizes.org/2009awards.htm
- ^ http://www.lmqlit.com/author-display.php?art=Catherine+Chung
- ^ http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/faculty/chung
- ^ http://events.adelphi.edu/newsevent/announcing-catherine-chung-as-our-newest-faculty-member/
- ^ http://www.guernicamag.com/information/masthead/
External links
- Catherine Chung, Official site
- Catherine Chung, "Novel Neighborhoods", Opinionator blog, New York Times, 11 October 2012