Nami Mun
Nami Mun was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up there and in Bronx, New York. Employed since the seventh grade, she has worked as an Avon Lady, a street vendor, a photojournalist, a bartender, an activities coordinator for a nursing home, and a criminal investigator. A graduate of UC Berkeley, she received her MFA from the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award for fiction and the Farrar Prize for Drama, and went on to become a Lecturer. She has received a Pushcart Prize, as well as scholarships and residencies from Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, Eastern Frontier, Squaw Valley Writers' Conference, Tin House Writers' Conference, and Key West Literary Seminar.
Nami Mun recommends
Miss Me Forever (2023)
Eugene Cross
"Miss Me Forever is a coming-of-age story, a refugee story, a love story and a family story, all wrapped up in honest, heart-felt writing that sheds an important light on the realities of being an outsider in this country. A thoroughly compelling novel filled with beautiful and effective subtleties, which is why one might not realize, until the final page, the somewhat ontological questions the story had raised, chiefly: what is 'family' when you don't have any left? And what makes you you when everything you had has been taken away?"
The Caregiver (2018)
Samuel Park
"An addictive, propulsive read that is both thoughtful and thought-provoking. Samuel Park writes with a gimlet eye about love, life and death, able to pierce even the toughest of hearts."
The House of Impossible Beauties (2018)
Joseph Cassara
"Underneath the grime and glitter, The House of Impossible Beauties is quietly about necessity and defiance, about love and death, about characters who ache to be alive and seen in a world that mirrors back nothing but rejection and violence."
Anthologies containing stories by Nami Mun
