Susan Choi

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Susan Choi
Choi at the 2019 Texas Book Festival
Born	1969 (age 54–55) South Bend, Indiana, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist
Education	Yale University (BA) Cornell University (MFA)
Genre	Fiction
Website
www.susanchoi.com

Susan Choi (born 1969) is an American novelist.

Early life and education

Choi was born in

As of May 2018, Choi is working on a novel employing conventions of memoir and reportage that "takes up the question of national identity, and the extent to which it coincides or does not coincide with ethnic and with cultural identity."[6]

She teaches creative writing at Yale University.^[7]

Awards and grants

• Asian American Literary Award for Fiction for The Foreign Student
• Steven Turner Award for The Foreign Student
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient (2001)
• Guggenheim Fellow
  (2004).
• PEN/W.G. Sebald Award (2010) for A Person of Interest
• Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction for My Education (2014)^[8]
• Trust Exercise (2019)^[9]
• Sunday Times Short Story Award (2021) for Flashlight^[10]

Bibliography

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Novels

• ISBN 0-06-019149-X
• ISBN 0-06-054221-7
• ISBN 978-0-670-01846-8
• ISBN 0670024902
• ISBN 9781250222022

Children's books

• Camp Tiger (picture book, illustrated by John Rocco) (2019),
  ISBN 9780399173295

Short fiction

Anthologies (edited)

• Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (2000),
  ISBN 0-375-50356-0
  (ed. with David Remnick)

Stories[11]

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected	Notes
Flashlight	2020	Choi, Susan (September 7, 2020). "Flashlight". The New Yorker. Vol. 96, no. 26. pp. 60–66.
The whale mother	2020	Choi, Susan (January 2020). "The whale mother". Harper's Magazine.

See also

• Korean Americans in New York City
• Literary license

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Choi, Susan (2004). American Woman. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc. pp. About the Author.
2. ^ Parker, Ian (12 September 2016). "Knives Out: Pete Wells, the Times' Restaurant Critic, wants to have fun -- or else". The New Yorker. No. 46–55. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
3. ^ "Finalist: American Woman, by Susan Choi (HarperCollins)". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
4. ^ Cohen, Patricia (23 September 2010). "PEN American Center Names Award Winners". New York Times — ArtsBeat.
5. ^ "Winners of the 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Announced | Lambda Literary". Archived from the original on 2020-07-28.
6. ^ "Susan Choi". english.yale.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
7. ^ "Susan Choi | Yale Creative Writing". yalecreativewriting.yale.edu. Archived from the original on 2020-01-01. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
8. Times-Picayune
   , June 3, 2014.
9. ^ Dwyer, Colin (November 20, 2019). "National Book Awards Handed To Susan Choi, Arthur Sze And More". NPR. Archived from the original on December 22, 2023. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
10. ^ "US author Choi wins £30k Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award". Books+Publishing. 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
11. ^ Short stories unless otherwise noted.

Further reading

• Nelson, Emmanuel Sampath (2000-01-01). Asian American novelists a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
• "Susan Choi". Contemporary Authors Online. Gale. 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
• State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America, "Indiana" essay.

External links

Wikiquote has quotations related to Susan Choi.

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• Official website
• Excerpt from Susan Choi's fiction in Guernica (guernicamag.com)
• Goldsea.com - interview with Susan Choi (2003)
• New York Public Library Young Lions Award finalist 2004
• link to picture of Susan Choi