Catherine Chung

Catherine Chung
Catherine Chung at the 2013 Texas Book Festival.
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] in addition to being chosen for several best of lists including Booklist's 10 Best Debut Novels of 2012,[3] and the San Francisco Chronicle's and 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] Catherine is the recipient of a 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing, a Granta New Voice, and a fiction editor at Guernica Magazine.[17]

References

  1. ↑ http://hemingwaysociety.org/?page_id=688
  2. ↑ http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781594488085/catherine-chung/forgotten-country
  3. ↑ http://www.booklistonline.com/ProductInfo.aspx?pid=5730874&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
  4. ↑ http://bookpage.com/bestof2012
  5. 1 2 Jan Stuart, Fiction Chronicle" "New Books by Jon McGregor and Others", New York Times, April 22, 2012
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Korean-American author’s riveting tale of family secrets", Korea Herald, June 1, 2012, accessed March 13, 2013
  7. ↑ http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-nea-announces-2014-creative-writing-fellowships-20131211,0,7864702.story#axzz2pqDJAQsm
  8. 1 2 Patrick Ryan (March 21, 2012). "Interview: Catherine Chung". Granta. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
  9. ↑ http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/novel-neighborhoods/
  10. ↑ http://therumpus.net/2013/04/yellow-peril-and-the-american-dream/
  11. ↑ http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Wish
  12. ↑ http://www.dorothyprizes.org/2009awards.htm
  13. ↑ http://www.lmqlit.com/author-display.php?art=Catherine+Chung
  14. ↑ http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/faculty/chung
  15. ↑ http://events.adelphi.edu/newsevent/announcing-catherine-chung-as-our-newest-faculty-member/
  16. ↑ http://www.guernicamag.com/information/masthead/
  17. ↑ http://www.catherinechung.com/bio/
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