Ed Park is the author of "Personal Days" and "Same Bed Different Dreams," a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent book, "An Oral History of Atlantis," is a story collection. Park is the founding editor of The Believer and has worked in newspapers and book publishing. His writing appears in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Harper’s, and The Atlantic. In 2025, he received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. Born in Buffalo, New York, he lives in Manhattan and teaches at Princeton University.
Awards: WINNER: Los Angeles Times Book Prize; American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature; Asian Pacific American Award in Literature (given by Asian Pacific American Librarians Assoc.); Deborah Pease Prize. FINALIST for Pulitzer Prize (2024); finalist in 2008-9 for PEN/Hemingway Award, John Sargent Senior (now Center for Fiction) First Novel Prize, Asian American Literary Award.
Communities: Asian American
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