by Jimin Han
To Nancee Adams, Joy Castro, Steve Edwards, Susan Greenberg, Julie Iromuanya, Jennifer Manocherian, Kreesan Pillay, Alan Russell, the fabulous Sarah Lawrence College community, the Saturday Fantastics, and the Thursday group at the Scarsdale Public Library—I’ll always be grateful.
For their friendship and inspiration, thanks go to Mary-Kim Arnold, Kathy Fish, Michael A. Horowitz, Ed Park, Linda Rodriguez, Matthew Salesses, Gabriel Spera, and Peter Tieryas, to name a few.
Last but not least, I want to thank those who seemed to believe in me long before I did: my childhood teachers Grace Dorman, Donald Mudge, Myron Rew, and Dwight Willson. I also want to thank my dear old friend Theresa Choh-Lee and her husband, H. J. Lee, who said I’d better get my novel published so they could organize a reading for me (I’m ready!), and a fellow student in a writing class I took in New York City years ago, who told me once he’d see my book in a shop window someday. I never forgot.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Photo © Janice Chung
Jimin Han received her MFA at Sarah Lawrence College and her BA from Cornell University. Her work appears in NPR’s Weekend America, Entropy, the Rumpus, HTMLGiant, The Good Men Project, Kartika Review, The NuyorAsian Anthology, and KoreanAmericanStory.org, among others. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College’s Writing Institute and lives outside New York City with her husband and children.