Sung Woo

Fiction Writer

Washington, NJ
New Jersey US
Email: 
sungjwoo@gmail.com
Website: 
www.sungjwoo.com
Twitter/X: 
@sjwoo

Author's Bio

Sung J. Woo’s short stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, PEN/Guernica, and Vox. He has written three novels, Skin Deep (2020), Love Love (2015) and Everything Asian (2009), which won the 2010 Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Literature Award.  In 2022, his Modern Love essay from The New York Times was adapted by Amazon Studios for episodic television.  A graduate of Cornell University with an MFA from New York University, he lives in Washington, New Jersey.

Education: 
New York University MFA
Literary agent: 
Priya Doraswamy, Lotus Lane Literary

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Skin Deep (Polis Books, 2020)
,
Love Love (Soft Skull Press, 2015)
,
Everything Asian (Thomas Dunne Books, 2009)
Prizes won: 

Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, Youth Category, 2009.

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Richard Yates, Stewart O'Nan, Don Lee, J. Robert Lennon, Alix Ohlin, Brian Morton
What I'm reading now: 
The Partition by Don Lee, Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Asian American
Fluent in: 
English, Korean
Born in: 
Seoul
South Korea
Raised in: 
Ocean, NJ
New Jersey
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Last update: Dec 27, 2022