Angela Hur

Angela Mi Young Hur
Born
Los Angeles, California
EducationHarvard University, 2002 Notre Dame University, 2005
OccupationWriter

Angela Mi Young Hur is an American writer based in Sweden. Her debut novel, The Queens of K-Town, was published in 2007 by MacAdam/Cage. Her second novel, Folklorn, is forthcoming from Erewhon in 2021.

Early life and education

Raised in Gardena, California, Hur graduated from Phillips Academy, an Andover, Massachusetts boarding school, in 1998.[1][2] She graduated from Harvard University in 2002.[3] As a Sparks Fellow, she received her Master of Fine Arts in fiction at Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.[4] Graduating in 2005, she won the Sparks Prize, a post-graduate fellowship.[4]

Career

Her debut novel, The Queens of K-Town, was published in 2007 by MacAdam/Cage.[5][6][7][8][9]

Hur lived in Long Beach, California when The Queens of K-Town was published. She later moved to Seoul, South Korea to take up a position as a lecturer of English Literature and Creative Writing at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.

Between 2010 and 2014, Hur lived in Stockholm, Sweden. She worked as an editor for the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute[10] and as a writer for the Korean Cultural Center in Stockholm.

Between 2014 and 2020, Hur lived in the Bay Area, CA. She taught for Writopia, a national non-profit providing writing workshops for kids and teens. She attended Tin House Writer's Workshop in 2017, where her novel Folklorn was chosen by Kelly Link for a Tin House Mentorship.[11] Excerpts have been published in Harvard's Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature[12] and Stockholm University's Two Thirds North.

Her second novel, Folklorn, forthcoming from Erewhon in 2021, was selected as one of "The 30 Most Anticipated SFF Books of 2021" by Tor.Com.[13] Amal El-Mohtar of the New York Times listed Folklorn as one of the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2021.[14]

Works

  • Hur, Angela Mi Young, Folklorn (2021), Erewhon. ISBN 978-1645660163

References

  1. ^ Choi, Minsoo (2007-09-12), "Korean American Author Angela Hur to Hold Book Signing in Washington D.C.", Dynamic Korea, Washington, D.C.: Embassy of the Republic of Korea, retrieved 2008-03-14
  2. ^ Niarchos, Zoe (Spring–Summer 2007), Class Notes, Class of 1998, Phillips Academy, retrieved 2008-03-14
  3. ^ "Faculty of Arts and Sciences 2001–2002 Student Prize Recipients" (PDF).
  4. ^ a b Dame, Marketing Communications: Web // University of Notre (3 April 2006). "Sparks fly for Creative Writing Program". Notre Dame News. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
  5. ^ Wyman, Anne Julia (2007-08-16). "'Queens of K-Town' are lonely young girls gone wild". SFGATE. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
  6. ^ "The Queens of K-Town - Publishers Weekly". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
  7. ^ "The Queens of Ktown by Angela Mi Young Hur – KoreanAmericanStory.org". Retrieved 2020-12-09.
  8. ^ sibookdragon (2007-11-01). "The Queens of K-town: A Novel by Angela Mi Young Hur [in Bloomsbury Review]". BookDragon. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
  9. ^ "asianamlitfans | A Review of The Queens of K-Town by Angela Mi Young Hur". asianamlitfans.dreamwidth.org. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
  10. ^ "Angela Mi Young Hur", Biographies, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, retrieved 2011-03-22
  11. ^ "Creative Writing MFA Alumni Mini-Conference // Events // Department of English // University of Notre Dame". english.nd.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
  12. ^ Hur, Angela Mi Young (2014-04-22). "Excerpt from Folklorn". Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture. 7 (1): 91–106. doi:10.1353/aza.2014.0037. ISSN 1944-6500. S2CID 179092493.
  13. ^ Orlando, Christina (2020-12-07). "The 30 Most Anticipated SFF Books of 2021". Tor.com. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
  14. ^ El-Mohtar, Amal (2021-12-08). "The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2021". The New York Times. Retrieved 2023-05-04.