Nami Mun

What: Nami Mun, an award-winning writer, will read from her work as part of the ongoing Allan K. Smith Fall Reading Series at Trinity College.  The event, sponsored by the Trinity College English Department, is free and open to the public.  A book signing and reception will follow. 

When: Thursday, November 19, 2009 ~ 4:30PM  

Where: Reese Room, Smith House on the campus on Trinity College
115 Vernon Street, Hartford, Conn. 06106

Background: 
Nami Mun was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up there and in Bronx, New York. She has worked as an Avon Lady, a street vendor, a photojournalist, a waitress, an activities coordinator for a nursing home, and a criminal defense investigator. After earning a GED, she went on to get a BA in English from UC Berkeley, and an MFA from University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award for fiction. Her stories have been published in the 2007 Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Iowa Review, Evergreen Review, Witness, Tin House, and other journals. Miles from Nowhere, her debut novel, was short-listed for the Orange Award for New Writers, and selected for Indie Next; Amazon’s Best of the Month; and Amazon’s Best Novel of the Year. “Shelter,” the lead story for the book, was awarded a Pushcart Prize, and Mun, herself, was named by Chicago Magazine as 2009’s Best New Novelist. She currently lives and teaches creative writing in Chicago.

This event is free and open to the public.  For more information, please contact Tracy Quigley at 860/297-2568, or by email at Tracy.Quigley@trincoll.edu.

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