Jinwoo Chong

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Jinwoo Chong is an American writer.

Jinwoo Chong
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Chong at the 2025 Gaithersburg Book Festival
Born (1995-10-19) October 19, 1995 (age 29)
Princeton
Education Georgetown University (BA)
Columbia University (MFA)
OccupationWriter
Spouse
Bram McGinnis
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(m. 2024)​
Website https://jinwoochong.com/


Early life and education

Chong was born in Princeton, New Jersey, to Korean-American immigrants and attended Princeton High School. [1] He received a bachelor’s degree in English from Georgetown University and a Master of Fine Arts in fiction from Columbia University. [2] [3]

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Career

Chong’s short stories have appeared in publications such as The Southern Review, Guernica, and The Rumpus. His short story “Six Enumerated Complications of Gravity,” received the Oran Robert Perry Burke Award.

In 2023, Chong’s debut novel Flux was published by Melville House, which received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Kirkus, and was named one of the best books of the year by Goodreads, Esquire, LitHub, among others. It was named a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. It was also named a New York Times Editor’s Choice.

Chong’s second novel, I Leave It Up to You, was published by Ballantine in 2025.

Personal life

In 2024, Chong married the playwright Bram McGinnis. They live in New Jersey.

Works

References

  1. ↑ "Another Princeton High Graduate Headlines at the Public Library". tapinto.net. Retrieved 2025-06-23.
  2. ↑ htf3 (2024-04-30). "Through Line: Novelist Jinwoo Chong (C'17) Celebrates a Banner Year". College of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2025-05-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ "'I Leave It Up to You,' New Novel from Jinwoo Chong '21, Out in March | School of the Arts". arts.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2025-05-17.
  4. ↑ Hunt, Laird (2023-03-21). "A Time-Travel Novel Whose Thrills Go Beyond the Speculative". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2025-05-17.
  5. ↑ Arrowsmith, Charles (2023-03-22). "Review | In Jinwoo Chong's debut novel, 'Flux,' there's a lot going on". The Washington Post. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 2025-05-17.
  6. ↑ "Ian Mond Reviews Flux by Jinwoo Chong". Locus Online. 2023-05-24. Retrieved 2025-05-17.
  7. ↑ May 10, Mark Dago on; Editorial, 2023 in Books. "'Flux: A Novel' Book Review". Big Shiny Robot. Retrieved 2025-05-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ↑ "'Flux' Review: Dopamine and Dramamine | Arts | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2025-05-17.
  9. ↑ G, Anna (2023-04-11). "Review: Flux by Jinwoo Chong". The Nerd Daily. Retrieved 2025-05-17.
  10. ↑ "I Leave it Up to You by Jinwoo Chong". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2025-05-17.
  11. ↑ Finger, Bobby (2025-03-05). "He Spent the Pandemic in a Coma. Can He Rebuild His Life?". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2025-05-25.
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