Angela Hur
Korean-American writer
Angela Mi Young Hur is an American writer based in Sweden. Her debut novel, The Queens of K-Town, was published in 2007 by MacAdam/Cage. Her second novel, Folklorn, is forthcoming from Erewhon in 2021.
Early life and education
Raised in Gardena, California, Hur graduated from Phillips Academy, an Andover, Massachusetts boarding school, in 1998. She graduated from Harvard University in 2002. As a Sparks Fellow, she received her Master of Fine Arts in fiction at Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. Graduating in 2005, she won the Sparks Prize, a post-graduate fellowship.
Career
Her debut novel, The Queens of K-Town, was published in 2007 by MacAdam/Cage.
Hur lived in Long Beach, California when The Queens of K-Town was published. She later moved to Seoul, South Korea to take up a position as a lecturer of English Literature and Creative Writing at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.
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