Cather­ine Chung is the recip­i­ent of a Nation­al Endow­ment for the Arts fel­low­ship and a Direc­tor’s Vis­i­tor­ship at the Insti­tute for Advanced Study in Prince­ton. She was a Gran­ta New Voice, and won an Hon­or­able Men­tion for the PEN/​Hemingway Award with her first nov­el, For­got­ten Coun­try, which was a Book­list, Book­page, and San Fran­cis­co Chron­i­cle Best Book of 2012. She has a degree in math­e­mat­ics from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Chica­go, and worked at a think tank in San­ta Mon­i­ca before going to Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty for her MFA. She has pub­lished work in The New York Times and Gran­ta, and is a fic­tion edi­tor at Guer­ni­ca Mag­a­zine. She lives in New York City.