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Patricia Park Assoc Professor Department of Literature

Degrees
MFA in Fiction, Boston University

BA in English Literature, Swarthmore College

Bio
Patricia Park is the author of the novel Re Jane (Viking/Penguin Random House, 2015), winner of an American Library Association award, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, NPR "Fresh Air" pick, and an O, The Oprah Magazine pick. She is also the author of the YA novels, Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim (Random House Children’s, 2023), which garnered starred reviews in Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal; and the forthcoming What’s Eating Jackie Oh?.

Her nonfiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Guardian, Salon, and others. Her work has been anthologized in Back to the Lake: A Reader and Guide, ed. Thomas Cooley (Norton, 2015); Reader, I Married Him: Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre, ed. Tracy Chevalier (Morrow, 2016); and a “Notable” in Best American Essays 2015, ed. Ariel Levy (Mariner, 2015).

She is a former Fulbright scholar, Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, American Association of University Women Fellow, Edith Wharton Writer-in-Residence, and others.

She is also working on an adult novel which explores the Korean community in Argentina during the Dirty War.
See Also
Creative Writing Program
For the Media
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Teaching

Fall 2024

  • LIT-107 Creative Writing Across Genres

  • LIT-400 Creative Writing: Fiction