Angela Hur received a BA in English Lit from Harvard and an MFA in Creative Writing from Notre Dame, where she won the Sparks Fellowship and the Sparks Prize.

Folklorn was included in The New York Times Book Review’s Top 10 Sci-fi/Fantasy of ‘21 and NPR’s Books We Love. Also featured in Newsweek, The Boston Globe, LitHub & elsewhere. The novel was also optioned by AMC TV Networks for series development. Now no longer, but what a ride!

Before publication, Folklorn was chosen by Kelly Link for a Tin House novel mentorship through the Tin House Summer Workshop.

Hur has taught English Lit and Creative Writing at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, in Seoul, Korea. She’s also taught for Writopia, a non-profit providing creative writing workshops for children and teens.

(Her debut The Queens of K-Town was published by MacAdam/Cage in ‘07, but don’t read it because she wrote it in 3 months and it definitely shows. Plus, she doesn’t get royalties.)