Jung Yun

Author, Board Member

Jung Yun (she/her) is a Baltimore-based author and an assistant professor of English at the George Washington University. Her debut novel, SHELTER, was long-listed for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and a finalist for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award. Her second novel, O BEAUTIFUL, will be published by St. Martin’s in the fall of 2021. Jung is a graduate of Vassar College, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and her writing has appeared in Tin House, The Massachusetts Review, The Indiana Review, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications.