Writers@Grinnell: Nami Mun

Writers@Grinnell brings Nami Mun, author of Miles from Nowhere, to campus for two free public events on Thursday, Feb. 19 in the Joe Rosenfield ’25 Center.

Roundtable: 4:15 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19, in Rosenfield Center 209

Reading: 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19, Rosenfield Center Room 101

Nami Mun grew up in Seoul, South Korea, and Bronx, New York. For her first book, Miles from Nowhere, she received a Whiting Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Chicago Public Library’s 21st Century Award, and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers and the Asian American Literary Award.

Miles From Nowhere was selected as Editors’ Choice and Top Ten First Novels by Booklist; Best Fiction of 2009 So Far by Amazon; and as an Indie Next Pick. Chicago Magazine named her Best New Novelist of 2009.

After earning a GED, she went on to get a bachelor’s in English from UC Berkeley, a master’s from University of Michigan, and has garnered fellowships from organizations such as Yaddo, MacDowell, Bread Loaf, and Tin House.

Her stories and non-fiction have been published in The New York Times, Granta, Tin House, The Iowa Review, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Evergreen Review, Witness, and elsewhere. She’s an assistant professor and the director of the Master of Fine Arts Fiction program at Columbia College Chicago.

Grinnell welcomes and encourages the participation of people with disabilities. Rosenfield Center rooms 101 and 209 are looped to supports telecoils. You can request accommodations from the event sponsor or Conference Operations.