Lydia Kang

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Lydia Kang
Born Baltimore, Maryland, United States
OccupationInternal medicine physician and novelist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Period2009–present
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Lydia Kang is an American author of adult and young adult fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. She is also an internal medicine physician, and practices internal medicine in Omaha, Nebraska.

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Life and education

Lydia Kang was born in Baltimore, Maryland. [1] [2] She graduated from Roland Park Country School in 1989 and received her BA from Columbia University. [3] She was a research assistant at the Columbia University Department of Biology during her undergraduate years and in graduate school. [4] She received her MD from New York University Grossman School of Medicine in 1998. [5] After completing a primary care internal medicine residency at New York University's Langone Department of Medicine, she served as chief resident from 2001 to 2002 [6] [7] before staying on as an attending physician at Bellevue Hospital. [8] [9] In 2006, she moved to Omaha, Nebraska with her family and is an associate professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. [3]

Career

In 2009, she joined the writing workshop The Seven Doctors Project at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. [6] After writing two novels, she sold her third, a young adult science fiction novel, Control, to Penguin Random House in 2011 [6] [10] which subsequently released in 2013. The sequel, Catalyst, was published in 2015. [6] In 2017, she released three more books, A Beautiful Poison, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything (co-written with Nate Pedersen), [11] [1] [12] and The November Girl. [13] The November Girl won a 2018 Nebraska Best Book Award for Young Adult Literature. [14] Quackery was a Science Friday Best Science Book of 2017. [15] Her young adult novel, Toxic, was published in 2018 and was a YARWA Athena Award winner for speculative fiction and a Junior Library Guild selection. [16] She also published three more adult historical fiction novels, including The Impossible Girl [17] in 2018, Opium and Absinthe in 2020, [18] and The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding in 2022. [19]

Her second co-written nonfiction book, Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Disease, was published in 2021 and received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. [20] It was the 2022 winner of the Nebraska Book Award in the NonFiction Popular History category. [21]

Her writing is included in the young adult anthology, Color Outside the Lines: Stories about Love. [22] Her short story, Right-Hand Man, is included in the 2020 anthology From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back, which describes the critical scene in The Empire Strikes Back in which 2-1B attached Luke Skywalker's prosthetic hand. [23] In 2022, StarWars.com announced the addition of Kang to their Phase II multimedia project [24] for the novel, Cataclysm. [25] In 2023, her short story "The Call of Coruscant" was released in Star Wars: The High Republic Tales of Light and Life, a Young Adult anthology.

She has helped other writers with medical accuracy in their fiction. [26] She has also published poetry and essays in JAMA , [27] The Canadian Medical Association Journal , [28] [29] Flatwater Free Press, [30] Journal of General Internal Medicine , [31] The Annals of Internal Medicine , [32] Great Weather for Media, [33] [34] and the Linden Review. [35]

Works

Young Adult Novels
Short Stories
Adult Novels
Adult Nonfiction

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References

  1. 1 2 Kang, Lydia. "Quackery". C-Span . C-Span. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
  2. ↑ Kang, Lydia (October 5, 2017). "Q&A With Lydia Kang". Women Writers, Women's Books. Retrieved October 5, 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Lydia Kang, MD". UNMC Nebraska Medicine. College of Medicine.
  4. ↑ Kang, Lydia; Marin, Melanie; Kelly, Darcy (1995). "Androgen Biosynthesis and Secretion in Developing Xenopus laevis". General and Comparative Endocrinology. 100 (3): 293–307. doi: 10.1006/gcen.1995.1160 . PMID   8775056.
  5. ↑ Kang, Lydia. "Dr. Lydia Kang, MD". US News Health. US News.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Brown, Chuck (January 10, 2012). "Dr. Kang Lands Fiction Deal with Penguin, credits Seven Doctors Project". University of Nebraska Medical Center. UNMC Newsroom. Retrieved January 10, 2012.
  7. ↑ Kang, Lydia. "Kang, Lydia". UNMC. Retrieved January 10, 2012.
  8. ↑ Su, Yungpo Bernard (2004). "Residents' Work Hours". Annals of Internal Medicine. 141 (9): 741. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-141-9-200411020-00029. PMID   15520442 . Retrieved November 2, 2004.
  9. ↑ "Kang, Lydia". UNMC. Retrieved January 10, 2012.
  10. ↑ Kang, Lydia. "A Literary Prescription for Success". Omaha Magazine. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
  11. ↑ "Tales from the Annals of Medical Quackery". CBS News. April 26, 2020. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  12. ↑ Kang, Lydia. "'Quackery' Chronicles How Our Love Of Miracle Cures Leads Us Astray". NPR. Retrieved October 15, 2017.
  13. ↑ Kang, Lydia. "The November Girl". Kirkus. Retrieved November 7, 2017.
  14. ↑ Kang, Lydia. "Celebrate Nebraska's 2018 Book Award Winners at December 1st Celebration". Official Nebraska Government Website. Nebraska Library Commission. Retrieved October 10, 2018.
  15. ↑ Kang, Lydia. "The Best Science Books of 2017". Science Friday. Retrieved December 8, 2017.
  16. ↑ Kang, Lydia. "Toxic". JLG. Junior Library Guild. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
  17. ↑ Kang, Lydia. "'The Impossible Girl' review: A Marvelous Medical Mystery". Hypable. Retrieved September 19, 2018.
  18. ↑ "Opium and Absinthe". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
  19. ↑ Kang, Lydia. "The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding". Historical Novel Society. Retrieved May 1, 2022.
  20. ↑ Kang, Lydia. "Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved November 10, 2021.
  21. ↑ Kang, Lydia. "Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases". The Nebraska Center For The Book. Retrieved September 22, 2022.
  22. ↑ Kang, Lydia (August 4, 2019). "Review: 'Color Outside the Lines' anthology". The Nerd Daily. Retrieved August 4, 2019.
  23. ↑ "About the Author". Penguin Random House.
  24. ↑ Kang, Lydia (April 13, 2022). "Star Wars: The High Republic Phase II Cover Art Revealed on Star Wars: The High Republic Show". StarWars.com. Retrieved April 13, 2022.
  25. ↑ "Review: Lydia Kang Delivers a High Republic Masterpiece in Star Wars: Cataclysm". Star Wars News Net.
  26. ↑ Croft, Hallie (January 9, 2018). "The Physician Who Pens YA Fiction Novels About Magic and Medicine". Op-Med. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  27. ↑ Kang, Lydia (2009). "The First Wake". JAMA. Jama Network. 301 (5): 467–468. doi:10.1001/jama.2009.61. PMID   19190306 . Retrieved February 4, 2009.
  28. ↑ Kang, Lydia (2010). "Returns". Canadian Medical Association Journal. CMAJ Group. 182 (11): E538. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.100434 . PMC   2917968 . S2CID   220296624 . Retrieved August 10, 2010.
  29. ↑ Kang, Lydia. "A Lost Aunt" (PDF). CMAJ Group. Retrieved September 6, 2011.
  30. ↑ Kang, Lydia (September 24, 2021). "A Nebraska Doctor Was Writing A History of Nightmare Pandemics. Then She Lived One". Flatwater Free Press. Retrieved September 24, 2021.
  31. ↑ Kang, Lydia (2010). "An Infinite Fraction". Journal of General Internal Medicine. 25 (7): 754. doi:10.1007/s11606-010-1343-8. PMC   2881971 . PMID   20383752.
  32. ↑ Kang, Lydia (2006). "The Veil". Annals of Internal Medicine. 145 (12): 932. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-145-12-200612190-00012. PMID   17179062. S2CID   42428639 . Retrieved December 19, 2006.
  33. ↑ "The Understanding Between Foxes and Light". Great Weather for Media. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
  34. ↑ "Q&A with Lydia Kang". Women Writers, Women's Books. Retrieved October 5, 2017.
  35. ↑ Kang, Lydia. "Lydia Kang, Check Your Head". The Linden Review.
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