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Gina Chung is a Korean American writer from New Jersey currently living in New York City. She is the author of the novel Sea Change, which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, a B&N Discover Pick, and an APALA Adult Fiction Honor Book, and the short story collection Green Frog, which was a Good Morning America Book Buzz Pick, an NPR Best Book of the Year, an APALA Adult Fiction Honor Book, and longlisted for the New American Voices Award. A recipient of the O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction and a Pushcart Prize, she is a Center for Fiction/Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellow and holds an MFA in fiction from The New School. She is a faculty member of the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program at Lasell University.