Nami Mun Reading
~ 缅北强奸鈥檚 Department of English presents ~
a reading by the award-winning, bestselling novelist
Nami Mun
Free and open to the public
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NAMI MUN is the author of the debut novel, Miles from Nowhere (Riverhead), which was shortlisted for the Orange Award and selected for Booklist Editors鈥� Choice, Booklist Top Ten First Novels, Amazon鈥檚 Best Fiction of 2009 So Far, and Indie Next. Named Best New Novelist of 2009 by Chicago magazine, she is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a 2009 Whiting Award.
Mun, who currently lives and teaches in Chicago, was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up there and in Bronx, New York. She has worked as an Avon Lady, a street vendor, a photojournalist, a waitress, an activities coordinator for a nursing home, and a criminal defense investigator. After earning a GED, she went on to get a BA in English from UC Berkeley, and an MFA from University of Michigan, where she received the first place Hopwood Award for short fiction. She has garnered scholarships from the Corporation of Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, Squaw Valley Writer鈥檚 Conference, and Tin House Writer鈥檚 Conference, and her stories have been published or are forthcoming in Granta, Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Iowa Review, Tin House, Evergreen Review, Witness, and elsewhere.