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Sung Woo [1]

Listed as: 
Fiction Writer
Public address: 
Washington, NJ
New Jersey US
Email: 
sungjwoo@gmail.com
Bio: 

Sung J. Woo’s short stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, PEN/Guernica, and Vox. He has written three novels, Skin Deep (2020), Love Love (2015) and Everything Asian (2009), which won the 2010 Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Literature Award.  In 2022, his Modern Love essay from The New York Times was adapted by Amazon Studios for episodic television.  A graduate of Cornell University with an MFA from New York University, he lives in Washington, New Jersey.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Korean
Favorite authors: 
Richard Yates, Stewart O'Nan, Don Lee, J. Robert Lennon, Alix Ohlin, Brian Morton
Twitter/X: 
sjwoo
Born in: 
Seoul
South Korea
Raised in: 
Ocean, NJ
New Jersey
Website: 
https://www.sungjwoo.com [2]
Prizes won: 

Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, Youth Category, 2009.

Literary Agent: 
Priya Doraswamy
Education: 
New York University
What I'm reading now: 
The Partition by Don Lee
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
Identifies as: 
Asian American

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