Hello, welcome to my site! My name is Jihoon Park and I am currently a PhD student in literature at UC Santa Cruz. I also hold an MFA in fiction from George Mason University. My critical writing focuses on biofiction and speculative/exploitative uses of biographical figures in contemporary literature. My novel, Stickman, is forthcoming in 2026 from 7.13 Books.
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Selected Fictions
O-Lan, You are the Earth [Southern Humanities Review, 2024]
Werner Herzog Can't Sleep [Puerto del Sol, 2024]
The Chicken in New Mexico Plays Tic-Tac-Toe [Washington Square Review, 2023]
Sketches of My Father [The Columbia Review, 2022]
The Tar Divers [Quarterly West, 2022]
Van Gogh and the Lego Man [Split Lip Magazine, 2022, Pushcart nominee]
The Grandfather Museum [Storm Cellar, 2021, Pushcart nominee]
The Big Stunt [The Forge Literary Magazine, 2021, Pushcart nominee, Q & A]
Head in the Clouds [Reed Magazine, 2021, Pushcart nominee, John Steinbeck Award for Fiction Finalist, judged by Rita Bullwinkel]
Conversations with My Friend Trilobite [Orca, 2021]
The Suspended Boulder [Little Patuxent Review, 2021, Q & A]
Teaching - University of California, Santa Cruz
LIT 133K: Contemporary East Asian Surrealist Novels
LIT 133C: Japan's I-Novel & Other Autobiographical Fiction from East Asia
LIT 91B: Intermediate Poetry Writing
LIT 90: Introduction to Creative Writing
(As teaching assistant) LIT 160K: Race, Labor, and Migration
Teaching - George Mason University
ENGH 398: Fiction Writing
ENGH 396: Introduction to Creative Writing
ENGH 201: Reading and Writing about Texts, (In person and online)
ENGH 101: Composition (In person and online)
Contact: 88park.jh@gmail.comÂ
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