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Sung J. Woo
Born (1971-06-08) June 8, 1971 (age 53)
Seoul, South Korea
OccupationWriter
NationalityKorean-American
EducationCornell University (BA)
New York University (MFA)

Sung J. Woo (born June 8, 1971) is a Korean-American writer of three works of fiction.[citation needed] He was born in Seoul, South Korea.

Personal

Woo came to the United States in 1981, when he was ten years old. He grew up in Ocean Township, New Jersey. He received his B.A. in English from Cornell University in 1994 and received his M.F.A. in creative writing from New York University in 2006. Woo currently lives in Washington Township, Warren County, New Jersey.[1]

Works

Woo's short story Limits received the 2008 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest Editor's Choice Award from Carve Magazine.[2]

Woo has also published non-fiction. His essays have been published in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine and KoreAm Journal.

Bibliography

Short stories

Novels

References

  1. ^ Sung J. Woo, Macmillan author bio, http://us.macmillan.com/author/sungjwoo
  2. ^ Sung J. Woo, Limits, "Sung J. Woo - Limits". Archived from the original on 2009-04-11. Retrieved 2009-05-08.

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