Katherine Min
Katherine Min's novel, Second Hand World, was published by Alfred A. Knopf, in 2006 and will be published in Italian in 2011. She was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Bingham Award for “an exceptionally talented writer whose debut work represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise.” Min’s stories have appeared in numerous publications, including TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, Prairie Schooner, River Styx, and Glimmer Train, and have been widely anthologized in college textbooks. One of her stories, “Courting a Monk”, was included in The Pushcart Book of Short Stories, a collection of the best Pushcart Prize stories of the last twenty-five years. Another story, “Eyelids”, was listed as a “Distinguished Story” in The Best American Short Stories of 1997; and “The Brick” was performed by a Korean-American actress at the Getty Museum in L.A., for National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts program in 1999. Min received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1992, and New Hampshire Arts Council Fellowships in 1995 and 2004. Min’s most recent story “The Music Lover,” appears in Long Story Short, ed. by Marianne Gingher, UNC Press. Min also recently contributed two creative writing exercises to Naming the World: And Other Exercises for The Creative Writer, ed. by Bret Anthony Johnston, Random House. She has been a fellow or resident at Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Hambidge, Ledig House, and the Millay Colony, and was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference. Min teaches creative writing and literature at the University of North Carolina, in Asheville, NC, the Iowa Summer Writers’ Festival, and in the low-residency MFA program at Queen’s University, in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is currently at work on her second novel, The Fetishist.
