Sung J. Woo
Sung J. Woo (born June 8, 1971) is a Korean-American writer. He was born in Seoul, South Korea.
Personal
Woo came to the United States in 1981, when he was ten years old. He grew up in Ocean Township, New Jersey. He received his B.A. in English from Cornell University in 1994 and received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from New York University in 2006. Woo currently lives in Washington Township, Warren County, New Jersey.[1]
Works
Woo's short story Limits received the 2008 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest Editor's Choice Award from Carve Magazine.[2]
Woo has also published non-fiction. His essays have been published in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine and KoreAm Journal.
Bibliography
Short stories
- Limits (2008)
Novels
- Everything Asian (2009), ISBN 978-0-312-53885-9.
- Love Love (2015), ISBN 978-1-593-76617-7.
References
- ^ Sung J. Woo, Macmillan author bio, http://us.macmillan.com/author/sungjwoo
- ^ Sung J. Woo, Limits, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-04-11. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
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External links
- Sung J. Woo: Official homepage
- The New York Times Magazine, Lives: "Like Father?"
- The New York Times, Generations: "Not Just a Place for Food, but for Bonding"
- KoreAm Journal, Object of My Affection: "A Cat Mug"
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Categories:
- American writers of Korean descent
- Living people
- Cornell University alumni
- New York University alumni
- 1971 births
- 21st-century American novelists
- American male novelists
- American novelists of Asian descent
- People from Ocean Township, Ocean County, New Jersey
- People from Warren County, New Jersey
- American male short story writers
- 21st-century American short story writers
- 21st-century American male writers
- Novelists from New Jersey