Jung Hae Chae is a Korean-American writer and author of the forthcoming memoir-in-essays, Pojangmacha People, winner of the 2022 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. Her writing can be found in AGNI, Guernica, New England Review, Ploughshares, swamp pink (formerly Crazyhorse), 2019 Pushcart Prize, and the 2022 Best American Essays.
A recent New Jersey State Council on the Arts fellow, she has received fellowships from MacDowell, Millay Arts, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Sustainable Arts Foundation, as well as scholarships from Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Sewanee Writers Conference, among others.
While at MacDowell, Chae worked on edits for Pojangmacha People. The book explores the matrilineal inheritance of han in the Korean diaspora.
