Angela Hur

Angela Mi Young Hur (born in Los Angeles, California) is a Korean American writer based in Sweden. Her debut novel, The Queens of K-Town, was published in 2007 by MacAdam/Cage. Her second novel, Folklorn, is forthcoming from Erewhon in 2021.

Angela Hur
Hangul
허미영[1]
Revised RomanizationHeo Mi-yeong
McCune–ReischauerHŏ Miyŏng

Early life and education

Raised in Gardena, California, Hur graduated from Phillips Academy, an Andover, Massachusetts boarding school, in 1998.[2][3] She graduated from Harvard University in 2002.[4] As a Sparks Fellow, she received her Master of Fine Arts in fiction at Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.[5] Graduating in 2005, she won the Sparks Prize, a post-graduate fellowship.[5]

Career

Her debut novel, The Queens of K-Town, was published in 2007 by MacAdam/Cage.[6][7][8][9][10]

Hur lived in Long Beach, California when The Queens of K-Town was published. She later moved to Seoul, South Korea to take up a position as a lecturer of English Literature and Creative Writing at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.[11]

Between 2010 and 2014, Hur lived in Stockholm, Sweden. She worked as an editor for the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute[12] and as a writer for the Korean Cultural Center in Stockholm.

Between 2014 and 2020, Hur lived in the Bay Area, CA. She taught for Writopia, a national non-profit providing writing workshops for kids and teens. She attended Tin House Writer's Workshop in 2017, where her novel Folklorn was chosen by Kelly Link for a Tin House Mentorship.[13] Excerpts have been published in Harvard's Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature[14] and Stockholm University's Two Thirds North.

Her second novel, Folklorn, forthcoming from Erewhon in 2021, was selected as one of "The 30 Most Anticipated SFF Books of 2021" by Tor.Com.[15]

Works
  • Hur, Angela Mi-Young (2007), The Queens of K-Town (paperback ed.), MacAdam/Cage, ISBN 978-1-59692-244-0
  • Hur, Angela Mi-Young (2007), The Queens of K-Town (paperback ed.), MacAdam/Cage, ISBN 978-1-59692-245-7

References
  1. Bak, Suk-hui, "소설'K타운의 여왕들'출간 (Novel 'The Queens of K-Town' published)", Joongang Ilbo, Atlanta, retrieved 2008-03-14
  2. Choi, Minsoo (2007-09-12), "Korean American Author Angela Hur to Hold Book Signing in Washington D.C.", Dynamic Korea, Washington, D.C.: Embassy of the Republic of Korea, retrieved 2008-03-14
  3. Niarchos, Zoe (Spring–Summer 2007), Class Notes, Class of 1998, Phillips Academy, retrieved 2008-03-14
  4. "Faculty of Arts and Sciences 2001–2002 Student Prize Recipients" (PDF).
  5. Dame, Marketing Communications: Web // University of Notre. "Sparks fly for Creative Writing Program". Notre Dame News. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
  6. Wyman, Anne Julia (2007-08-16). "'Queens of K-Town' are lonely young girls gone wild". SFGATE. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
  7. "The Queens of K-Town - Publishers Weekly". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
  8. "The Queens of Ktown by Angela Mi Young Hur – KoreanAmericanStory.org". Retrieved 2020-12-09.
  9. sibookdragon (2007-11-01). "The Queens of K-town: A Novel by Angela Mi Young Hur [in Bloomsbury Review]". BookDragon. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
  10. "asianamlitfans | A Review of The Queens of K-Town by Angela Mi Young Hur". asianamlitfans.dreamwidth.org. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
  11. Hur, Mi-young (2009-02-26), "Misleading and Dismaying", Korea Times, retrieved 2009-02-27
  12. "Angela Mi Young Hur", Biographies, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, retrieved 2011-03-22
  13. "Creative Writing MFA Alumni Mini-Conference // Events // Department of English // University of Notre Dame". english.nd.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
  14. Hur, Angela Mi Young (2014-04-22). "Excerpt from Folklorn". Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture. 7 (1): 91–106. doi:10.1353/aza.2014.0037. ISSN 1944-6500.
  15. Orlando, Christina (2020-12-07). "The 30 Most Anticipated SFF Books of 2021". Tor.com. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
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