Katherine Min

Katherine Min’s novel, SECONDHAND WORLD, was published by Alfred A. Knopf, in 2006, and was a finalist for the PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Her short work has appeared in numerous journals, including Ploughshares, Triquarterly, Threepenny Review, and Glimmer Train. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Prize, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the NH Council for the Arts, and the NC State Arts Council. Min has received residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Ucross, Jentel, the Virginia Center for the Arts, among other places. She has Stage 4 breast cancer, and is currently working on a book of essays, Losing the Plot, about her experiences. Min teaches at the University of North Carolina, Asheville.