Ed Park

In May 2008, Park's debut novel Personal Days was published by Random House. It was a finalist for that year's PEN/Hemingway Award, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize (then known as the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize), and the Asian American Literary Award. It was also named one of the ten best fiction books of the year by Time.

Park's second novel, Same Bed Different Dreams, was published by Random House in November 2023. Publishers Weekly named it a Top 10 Book of the Year,{{Cite web |title=Best Books 2023: Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly |url=https://best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-books/2023/top-10 |access-date=2023-11-22 |website=PublishersWeekly.com}} and The New York Times said, "It’s a challenging read and yet wonderfully suspenseful, like watching a circus performer juggle a dozen torches…A sprawling, stunning novel."{{Cite news |last=Cain |first=Hamilton |date=November 2, 2023 |title=Welcome to Ed Park's Many-Layered World |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/books/review/same-bed-different-dreams-ed-park.html |website=The New York Times}} It won the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction.{{Cite web |title=Book Prizes » Festival of Books » L.A. Times |url=https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/bookprizes/ |access-date=2024-04-21 |website=Festival of Books |language=en-US}} On May 6, 2024, Same Bed Different Dreams was announced as a Finalist for 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.{{Cite web |title=Finalist: Same Bed Different Dreams, by Ed Park (Random House) |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/ed-park}}

Park was a founding editor of the magazine The Believer in 2003, and has been an editor at the Poetry Foundation, as well as the editor of the Village Voice{{'}}s Literary Supplement. Beginning in August 2006, soon after he lost his job at the Village Voice, he circulated a PDF-only newsletter called "The New-York Ghost".{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/nyregion/thecity/25ghos.html | title=The Wizard of Whimsy | work=The New York Times | date=25 November 2007 | accessdate=20 May 2017 | author=Knafo, Saki}} From 2007 to 2011, he wrote the science-fiction column "Astral Weeks" for the Los Angeles Times.{{cite web |title=About Ed Park |url=http://ed-park.com/ |accessdate=20 May 2017 |work=Ed Park Website}} His stories, articles, and humor have appeared in The New Yorker.{{Cite magazine |title=Ed Park |url=https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/ed-park |magazine=The New Yorker |access-date=2017-12-14}} From 2018 to 2021, he wrote the graphic novel column for the New York Times Book Review.{{Cite web |date=2018-03-27 |title=Introducing The Book Review's New Graphic Novels and Comics Column |url=https://www.nytco.com/press/introducing-the-book-reviews-new-graphic-novels-and-comics-column/ |access-date=2023-09-24 |website=The New York Times Company |language=en-US}}

In 2011, he was hired by Amazon Publishing as a senior editor, where he was in charge of the company's literary side.{{cite web |author=Witt, Emily |date=22 September 2011 |title=Believer Editor Ed Park Hired by Amazon Publishing |url=http://observer.com/2011/09/believer-editor-ed-park-hired-by-amazon-publishing/ |accessdate=20 May 2017 |work=New York Observer}} After hiring him, Amazon later gave him his own imprint, Little A. He earned Amazon a major literary prize while working there.{{cite web |author=Alter, Alexandra |date=8 November 2014 |title=Prominent Editor's Exit Is Setback for Amazon Publishing Unit |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/08/business/media/a-major-setback-for-amazons-publishing-unit.html?_r=0 |accessdate=20 May 2017 |work=The New York Times}} He has written introductions to several books, including Anthony Powell's Afternoon Men,{{Cite magazine |last=Park |first=Ed |date=2014-10-15 |title=A Portrait of the Artist as a Droll Slacker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/portrait-artist-droll-slacker |magazine=The New Yorker |access-date=2017-12-14}} and co-edited three anthologies: Read Hard and Read Harder (both with Heidi Julavits), and Buffalo Noir (with Brigid Hughes).{{Cite news |title=The City of No Illusions - Los Angeles Review of Books |language=en-US |work=Los Angeles Review of Books |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-city-of-no-illusions/ |access-date=2017-12-11}} In 2014, it was reported that he had been hired by Penguin Press as executive editor. He has taught in the graduate writing program at Columbia University.{{cite book |author=Kirszner, Laurie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B4XwDAAAQBAJ |title=Portable Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing, 2016 MLA Update |publisher=Cengage Learning |year=2017 |isbn=9781337517775 |pages=97}} He currently teaches at Princeton University.{{Cite web |title=Creative Writing Faculty & Visiting Writers |url=https://arts.princeton.edu/academics/creative-writing/creative-writing-people/ |access-date=2023-11-22 |website=Lewis Center for the Arts |language=en-US}}

Park received his English degree from Yale University and his M.F.A. from Columbia University. As of 2014, he lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side with his wife and two sons.

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