Gabe Hudson

Gabe Hudson (born 1971) is an American writer who currently lives in Seoul, Korea, where he is Chair of the Creative Writing Program at Yonsei University’s Underwood International College.^[1] Before moving to Seoul, he taught in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University from 2004-2007.^[2]

Life

Hudson served as a rifleman in the Marine Corps Reserve, and holds an Master of Fine Arts from Brown University, where he received the top graduate creative writing award, The John Hawkes Prize in Fiction. He has traveled extensively in East Asia, and resided in Bangkok and Seoul.

Hudson’s first book of fiction, “Dear Mr. President” (2002), has been translated into seven languages, was a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist, and received the Alfred Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. “Dear Mr. President” was chosen as one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by GQ, as well as a Best Book of the Year by The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Village Voice, and a New & Noteworthy Paperback by The New York Times.^[3]

Hudson was a contributing writer for HBO’s book, “Six Feet Under: Better Living Through Death” (2004). He is an editor-at-large for McSweeney’s.^[4]

In 2007, he was selected as one of the “Twenty Best Young American Novelists” by Granta Magazine.

^ [1], Pulitzer poet stirs Korean sorrow | JoongAng Daily .
^ [2], Guardian.co.uk | Ed Pilkington reports on Granta's prestigious new list of the best young American novelists.
^ [3], New York Times | New & Noteworthy Paperbacks.
^ [4], Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency | Gabe Hudson's Dear Mr. President Letters

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