name: Ed     Park
birth_date: 0001-08-02 00:00:00
genres: Science Fiction, Fiction, Literature & Fiction
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about: I'm the author of the forthcoming story collection AN ORAL HISTORY OF ATLANTIS (July 2025). More about this soon... I've also written two novels SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS (2023) was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction. It's now out in paperback.PERSONAL DAYS (2008) was named a top 10 fiction book by Time Magazine and one of the decade's top 10 pop culture moments by The Atlantic. It was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Asian American Literary Award, and the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize. My story WEIRD MENACE is available as an Audible Original. A short story collection is forthcoming. What else? I'm a founding editor of THE BELIEVER, and I've written for The Atlantic I'm the author of the forthcoming story collection AN ORAL HISTORY OF ATLANTIS (July 2025). More about this soon... I've also written two novels SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS (2023) was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction. It's now out in paperback.PERSONAL DAYS (2008) was named a top 10 fiction book by Time Magazine and one of the decade's top 10 pop culture moments by The Atlantic. It was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Asian American Literary Award, and the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize. My story WEIRD MENACE is available as an Audible Original. A short story collection is forthcoming. What else? I'm a founding editor of THE BELIEVER, and I've written for The Atlantic, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and many other places. (Check out ed-park.com or https://linktr.ee/edpark for some recent pieces.) NB, I am *not* the author of THE WORLD OF THE OTTER, by the late nature writer Ed Park, but it's worth picking up if you see a copy (and like otters). ...more