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Jinwoo Chong is the author of the novel Flux, a New York Times Editor’s Choice, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and named a best book of 2023 by Esquire, Apple Books, HuffPost, GQ, Cosmopolitan, and Goodreads.
His short stories and other work have appeared or are forthcoming in Guernica, The Southern Review, The Rumpus, LitHub, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Electric Literature.
His second novel, I Leave It Up to You, will be published 3.4.25 in the US by Ballantine and the UK & Commonwealth by Scribe.
He lives in New York with his husband and cat.