Jean Kyoung Frazier

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Jean Kyoung Frazier
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
Education USC (2016), [1] Columbia University MFA (2018) [2]
GenreFiction
Notable worksPizza Girl (2020)
Website
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Jean Kyoung Frazier is a Korean American novelist and screenwriter. [3] [4] [5] [6]

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Work

Frazier is the author of the novel Pizza Girl, [7] published by Doubleday in 2020, [8] and a contributor to Unpublishable, an anthology edited by Chris Molnar for Archway Editions. [9] In 2021 Pizza Girl was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction. [10]

Among other work, she has written for Law & Order: Organized Crime . [11] In 2021 she joined the writing staff of the Netflix show Beef starring Steven Yeun, and Ali Wong. [12] The series debuted on April 6, 2023. [13] In 2023 Frazier joined the writing staff of Lucky Hank starring Bob Odenkirk based on the book Straight Man by Richard Russo. [14] The show debuted on March 11, 2023 on AMC. [15]

Bibliography

Fiction

Anthologies

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