Jinwoo Chong is the author of the novels I Leave It Up to You and Flux, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. His work has appeared in Guernica, The Southern Review, The Rumpus, LitHub, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Electric Literature, and received recognition from the 2025 Best American Short Stories anthology and a special mention from the 2022 Pushcart Prizes. His third novel is forthcoming in March 2027, from Ballantine. He lives in New Jersey with his husband and cat.