Patricia Park Associate Professor Literature
- Degrees
- MFA in Fiction, Boston University
BA in English Literature, Swarthmore College - Bio
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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鈥 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鈥檚, 2023), which garnered starred reviews in Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal; and the forthcoming What鈥檚 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 鈥淣otable鈥 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
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Teaching
Fall 2024
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LIT-400 Creative Writing: Fiction
Spring 2025
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LIT-400 Creative Writing: Fiction
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LIT-711 Adv Studies in Literary Craft: Young Adult Fiction