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 autofiction, biofiction, and speculative topographies 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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