Sonya Chung is the author of the novels The Loved Ones (Relegation Books, 2016) and Long for This World (Scribner, 2010). She is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize nomination, the Charles Johnson Fiction Award, the Bronx Council on the Arts Writers’ Residency, a MacDowell Fellowship, a Key West Literary Seminars residency, a Studios of Key West residency, and an Escape to Create residency.
Chung’s stories, reviews, and essays have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Tin House, The Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books, Short: An International Anthology, and This is The Place: Women Writing About Home, among others. From 2009 to 2021 she was a staff writer for The Millions, where she wrote essays, reviews, and cultural criticism. Chung has taught fiction writing at Columbia University, Skidmore College, NYU, Warren Wilson’s M.F.A. program, and Gotham Writers’ Workshop. Currently she lives in New York City, where she is director and a programmer at a nonprofit arthouse cinema.
At MacDowell, she worked on her second novel, a new short story, and two personal essays.
Portrait by Patrick Quarterman
