Paul Yoon

Paul Yoon (born 1980) is an acclaimed American fiction writer and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Harvard University. He is the author of five works of fiction, including Once the Shore (a New York Times Notable Book), Snow Hunters (winner of the Young Lions Fiction Award), The Mountain (an NPR Best Book of the Year), Run Me to Earth (longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal), and The Hive and the Honey (winner of The Story Prize). A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and others, his stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Best American Short Stories; he lives in the Hudson Valley, New York.