Frances Park is a Korean American author of novels and memoirs published around the globe. Her books have been praised by The Straits Times, The Washington Post, The Korea Times, USA Today, The Times Literary Supplement, The London Times, The Korean Quarterly, The Taipei Times, National Public Radio, Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, CNN, Newsweek, and Good Morning America.
Her stories reflect an identity born of two worlds. In her novel Blue Rice, a Korean woman who survived the war must acclimate to 1960 white America as she senses her husband’s desertion. Her poignant novel The Summer My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon portrays the spiritual deformity of two Korean American sisters growing up in Washington, DC suburbia in the 1970s. That Lonely Spell, a memoir-in-essays, was praised by Kirkus Reviews as “a fresh take on the Korean American memoir by a writer from a generation whose voice has seldom been heard.” Her award-winning short stories and personal essays have appeared in over fifty magazines including O, The Oprah Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, The Columbia Journal, The London Magazine, Arts & Letters, The Bellevue Literary Review, and The Chicago Quarterly.
The theme of losing her father young haunts much of the author’s work. In Ahn Love she imagines him today, had he lived to the ripe old age of ninety.
Frances lives outside Washington, DC. Visit her at parksisters.com.
