Ed Park (He/Him)

Beowulf Sheehan

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.

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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

Wit and Wonder

The familiar becomes strange ... the ordinary reveals a hidden depth ...reality itself is slightly off-kilter. These three authors masterfully use surrealism and dark humor to defamiliarize everyday life, inviting readers into worlds that feel both recognizable and profoundly unsettling.

UA Campus Store Stage (Seats 250)  
Sat, Mar 14, 11:30 am - 12:25 pm
Fiction / Literature
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area - UA Campus Store Lower Level (following presentation)  

Panelists: Lydia Millet, Ed Park, Joshua Wheeler
Moderator: Emily Walsh
Sponsors: Session made possible courtesy of Pi Beta Phi Fraternity - Arizona Alpha Chapter, UA Campus Store, Sandra D. Rutherford

Stories of Self

In a rapidly changing world, how do we navigate identity, expectation, and belonging? This panel brings together three authors whose work captures the instability and reinvention of the self, illuminating how history, culture, and ambition collide in the search for meaning.

Koffler Room 218 (Seats 142, Wheelchair accessible)  
Sun, Mar 15, 1:00 pm - 1:55 pm
Fiction / Literature
Signing area: Sales & Signing Koffler/Commons (following presentation)

Panelists: Jade Chang, Ed Park, Shobha Rao
Moderator: Anne Gardner
Sponsors: Session made possible courtesy of Judith Marro, Martha A. Boose

Books:

An Oral History of Atlantis

Stories
Fiction / Literature
Random House
July 2025
ISBN 9780812998993
224 pages
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Same Bed Different Dreams

A Novel
Fiction / Literature
Random House
October 2024
ISBN 9780812988321
544 pages
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