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Korean-American Writers List Korean-American Writers List (Fiction, Poetry, Creative Non-Fiction, Memoir, Young Adult Fiction, Children’s Fiction) Compiled by Thomas Chung, April 2015 to June 2015 1. Haemi Balgassi. Children’s Fiction. Young Adult Fiction. Works: Peacebound Trains. HMH Books for Young Readers. 2000. Tae’s Sonata. Clarion Books. 1997. www.haemibalgassi.com/ 2. Steph Cha Fiction. Mystery. Works: Dead Soon Enough (Juniper Song Mysteries). Minotaur Books. 2015. Beware Beware (Juniper Song Mysteries). Minotaur Books. 2014. Follow Her Home (Juniper Song Mysteries). Minotaur Books. 2013. us.macmillan.com/author/stephcha 3. Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (Deceased) Literature. Visual Art. Film. Performance Art. Works: Dictée. athinalugez.wordpress.com/2015/03/11/korean-american-artist-theresa-hak-kyung-cha- mixes-media-to-explore-history-language-and-power/ 1 4. Leonard Chang Fiction. Works: Triplines. Black Heron Press. 2014. Crossings. Black Heron Press. 2009. Fade to Clear: An Allen Choice Novel. Minotaur Books. 2004. Underkill: An Allen Choice Novel. Minotaur Books. 2003. Over the Shoulder: A Novel of Intrigue. Ecco. 2001. Dispatches from the Cold. Black Heron Press. 1998 The Fruit N’ Food. Black Heron Press. 1996. www.leonardchang.com/ 5. Easurk Emsen Charr (deceased) Memoir. Works: The Golden Mountain: The Autobiography of a Korean Immigrant, 1895-1960. Forum. 1961 [reprinted by University of Illinois Press. 1996] www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/85hnz5dg9780252022173.html 6. Sunny Che Memoir. Works: Forever Alien: A Korean Memoir, 1930-1951. Mcfarland and Co. Publishing. 2005. www.amazon.com/Forever-Alien-Korean-Memoir-1930-1951/dp/0786421541 7. Alexander Chee Fiction. Poetry. Journalism. Reviews. Works: The Queen of the Night. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2016. Edinburgh. Picador. 2002. http://alexanderchee.net/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Chee 2 8. David Cho Poetry. Works: Night Sessions. CavanKerry Press. 2011. Song of Our Songs. Finishing Line Press. 2010 http://www.hope.edu/2010/08/30/david-cho-english-faculty-authors-poetry-chapbook 9. Annie Choi Memoir. Works: Happy Birthday or Whatever: Track Suits, Kim Chee, and Other Family Disasters. Harper Perennial. 2007. Shut Up, You’re Welcome: Thoughts on Life, Death, and Other Inconveniences. Touchstone. 2013. http://www.amazon.com/Annie-Choi/e/B001JRYZYK 10. Chiwan Choi Poetry. Works Abductions. Writ Large. 2012 http://chiwanchoi.com/ 11. Franny Choi Poetry. Works Floating, Brilliant, Gone. (Poetry Collection) Write Bloody Publishing. 2014. http://frannychoi.com/ 3 12. Sook Nyul Choi Young Adult Fiction. Works: Gathering of Pearls. HMH Books for Young Readers. 2007. Halmoni and the Picnic. Echoes of the White Giraffe. Houghton. 1993. Year of Impossible Goodbyes. Dell. 1993. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sook_Nyul_Choi 13. Susan Choi Fiction. Works: My Education. Penguin Books. 2014. A Person of Interest. Penguin Books. 2008. The Foreign Student. Harper Perennial. 2004. American Woman. Harper Perennial. 2004. http://www.susanchoi.com/ 14. Yangsook Choi Children’s Books. Illustration. Works: Behind the Mask. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2006. Peach Heaven. Frances Foster Books. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2005. The Name Jar. Dragonfly Books. 2003. New Cat. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). 1999. The Sun Girl and the Moon Boy. Knopf. 1997. http://www.yangsookchoi.com/ 15. Seo-Young J. Chu Theory/Criticism. Works: Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation. Harvard University Press. 2010. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674055179 4 16. Catherine Chung Fiction. Poetry. Works: Forgotten Country (novel). Riverhead Books. 2012. http://www.catherinechung.com/ 17. Sonya Chung Fiction. Works: Long For This World. Scribner. 2010. http://sonyachung.com/ http://www.amazon.com/Long-This-World-A-Novel/dp/1400166438 18. Michael Suk-Young Chwe Game Theory/Literary Analysis. Works: Jane Austen: Game Theorist. Princeton University Press. 2014 http://www.chwe.net/michael/ 19. Jennifer Kwon Dobbs (Jennifer Sujin Lee) Poetry. Essays. Criticism. Works: Paper Pavilion (poetry collection). White Pine Press. 2007. http://www.jkwondobbs.com/ 20. Heinz Insu Fenkl Fiction. Works: Cathay. Codhill Press. 2007. Memories of My Ghost Brother. Plume. 1997. http://heinzinsufenkl.net/ 5 21. Jenny Han Young Adult Fiction. Children’s Fiction. Works: P.S. I Still Love You. Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers. 2015. Ashes to Ashes. Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers. 2014. Fire with Fire. Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers. 2014. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers. 2014. Burn for Burn. Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers. 2012. We’ll Always Have Summer. Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers. 2012. http://www.dearjennyhan.com/ 22. Lee Herrick Poetry. Works: Gardening Secrets of the Dead. WordTech Editions. 2012 This Many Miles from Desire. WordTech Editions. 2007. http://www.leeherrick.com/ 23. Anna Maria Hong Poetry. Works: Hello, Virtuoso! Belladonna Books. 2013. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/anna-maria-hong 24. Cathy Park Hong Poetry. Works: Engine Empire. W. W. Norton and Company. 2013. Dance Dance Revolution. W. W. Norton and Company. 2008. Translating Mo’um. Hanging Loose Press. 2002. http://www.cathyparkhong.com/ 6 25. Y. Euny Hong Fiction. Journalism. Works: The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture (non-fiction). Picador. 2014. Kept: A Comedy of Sex and Manners (novel). Simon and Schuster. 2006. http://www.eunyhong.com/ 26. Angela Mi Young Hur Fiction. Works: The Queens of K-Town. MacAdam/Cage. 2007. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Hur 27. Caroline Hwang Fiction Works: In Full Bloom. Plume. 2004. http://carolinehwang.com/ 28. Peter Hyun (deceased, 1906-1993) Memoir. In the New World: The Making of a Korean American. University of Hawaii Press. 1995. Man Sei! The Making of a Korean American. University of Hawaii Press. 1986. http://articles.latimes.com/1987-09-13/books/bk-7437_1_peter-hyun http://www.jstor.org/stable/467478?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents 7 29. Mike Jung Young Adult Fiction. Works: Geeks, Girls, and Secret Identities. Arthur A. Levine Books. 2012. https://captainstupendous.wordpress.com/ 30. Kristiana Kahakauwila Fiction. Short Stories. Works: This Is Paradise. (short story collection) Hogarth. 2013. http://www.amazon.com/This-Is-Paradise-Kristiana-Kahakauwila/dp/0770436250 31. Jay Caspian Kang Fiction. Journalism. Works: The Dead Do Not Improve. Hogarth/Random House. 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Caspian_Kang 32. Minsoo Kang Fiction. Non-Fiction. Essays. History. Works: Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination. Harvard University Press. 2011. Of Tales and Enigmas. Wildside Press. 2007. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsoo_Kang 8 33. Younghill Kang (Deceased, 1903-1972). Fiction. Works: East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee. 1937. The Happy Grove. Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1933. The Grass Roof. Scribner’s. 1931. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younghill_Kang 34. Nora Okja Keller Fiction. Works: Fox Girl. Penguin Books. 2003. Comfort Woman. New York: Penguin Books. 1998. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Okja_Keller 35. Arlene Kim Poetry. Works: What have you done to our ears to make us hear echoes?. Milkweed Editions. 2011. http://arlenekim.com/ 36. Elizabeth Kim Memoir. Works: Ten Thousand Sorrows. Transworld Publishers. 2002. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Kim 37. Eugenia Kim Fiction. Works: The Calligrapher’s Daughter. Henry Holt and Company. 2009. http://www.thecalligraphersdaughter.com/ 9 38. Helen Kim Young Adult Fiction. Works: The Long Season of Rain. Henry Holt and Co. 1996. http://www.amazon.com/The-Long-Season-Rain-Helen/dp/0449704629 39. Hyejin Kim Fiction. Works: Jia: A Novel of North Korea. Cleis Press. 2007. http://www.curledup.com/jianovel.htm 40. Katherine Yungmee Kim Non-Fiction. Journalism. Works: Los Angeles’s Koreatown. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. 2011. http://katherineykim.com/ 41. Maxi Kim Fiction. Works: One Break, A Thousand Blows. Ram Distribution/Semina/Book Works. 2008. http://www.amazon.com/One-Break-Thousand-Blows-Semina/dp/1906012059 42. Mike Kim Memoir. Works: Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World’s Most Repressive Country. Rowman and Littlefield. 2008. http://www.escapingnorthkorea.com/ 10 43. Myung Mi Kim Poetry. Works: Under Flag. Kelsey St. Press. 1991, reprinted 1998 and 2008. The Bounty. Chax Press 1996, reprinted 2000. Dura. Sun and Moon Press. 1999. Commons. University of California Press. 2002. Penury. Omnidawn Publishing. 2009. River Antes. Atticus/Finch. 2006. Spelt. a+bend press. 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myung_Mi_Kim 44. Nancy Kim Fiction. Works: Chinhominey’s Secret. Bridgeworks. 2001. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Kim http://www.amazon.com/Chinhomineys-Secret-Novel-Nancy-Kim/dp/1882593499 45. Patti Kim Fiction. Works: A Cab Called Reliable. St. Martin’s Press. 1997. Here I Am. Capstone. 2013. https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/14/bib/970914.rv114511.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patti_Kim_%28writer%29 11 46. Richard Eun Kook Kim (deceased, 1932-2009) Fiction. Non-Fiction. Children’s Fiction. Works: The Martyred. Penguin Classics. 2011 (originally published in 1964) The Innocent. 1968. Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood (memoir). UC Press 1998 (originally published 1970)
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