Reese Okyong Kwon

Reese Okyong Kwon’s stories are published or forthcoming in Missouri Review, American Short Fiction, Epoch, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. In addition, she has been recognized as one of Narrative’s “30 Below 30″ writers.

She has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony, as well as fellowships from the Anderson Center, Hedgebrook, and the Elizabeth George Foundation. She is a graduate of the MFA program at Brooklyn College, where she won the Himan Brown award for fiction. While an undergraduate at Yale University, she received the Wallace Prize for fiction.

Reese was born in Seoul, South Korea, and has lived for most of her life in the United States. These days, she is working on a novel that explores questions of religious extremism.