Sung J. Woo Explained

Sung J. Woo
Birth Date:	8 June 1971
Birth Place:	Seoul, South Korea
Occupation:	Writer
Nationality:	Korean-American
Education:	Cornell University (BA) New York University (MFA)

Sung J. Woo (born June 8, 1971) is a Korean-American writer of three works of fiction. He was born in Seoul, South Korea.

Personal

Woo came to the United States in 1981, when he was ten years old. He grew up in Ocean Township, New Jersey. He received his B.A. in English from Cornell University in 1994 and received his M.F.A. in creative writing from New York University in 2006. Woo currently lives in Washington Township, Warren County, New Jersey.^[1]

Works

Woo's short story Limits received the 2008 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest Editor's Choice Award from Carve Magazine.^[2]

Woo has also published non-fiction. His essays have been published in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine and KoreAm Journal.

Bibliography

Short stories

• Limits (2008)

Novels

• Everything Asian (2009), .
• Love Love (2015), .
• Skin Deep (2020), .
• Deep Roots (2023), .

External links

• Sung J. Woo: Official homepage
• The New York Times Magazine, Lives: "Like Father?"
• The New York Times, Generations: "Not Just a Place for Food, but for Bonding"
• The New York Times, Modern Love: "Overfed on a Mother’s Affection"
• The New York Times, Private Lives: "Saying ‘I Love You’ With Baseball"
• The New York Times, Ties: "The Unexpected Branch on the Family Tree"
• WBUR Modern Love Podcast: "Overfed On A Mother's Affection | With Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon"
• Sung J Woo at Library of Congress Authorities

Notes and References

1. Sung J. Woo, Macmillan author bio, http://us.macmillan.com/author/sungjwoo
2. Sung J. Woo, Limits, Web site: Sung J. Woo - Limits . 2009-05-08 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090411043301/http://www.carvezine.com/issue/2008/fall/woo.htm . 2009-04-11 .