# Ed Park

> Ed Park is an American novelist, story writer, critic, editor, and Princeton creative-writing lecturer whose formally playful work connects Korean history, Buffalo hockey, office life, technology, and speculative fiction. After the 2008 novel Personal Days, he spent nine years constructing Same Bed Different Dreams, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and became a 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist. His later burst of work includes the 2025 collection An Oral History of Atlantis, the 2026 memoir Three Tenses, recovered from a manuscript written in 1998, and the forthcoming illustrated horror volume The Repairer of Reputations.

- **Role:** Lecturer in Creative Writing at Princeton University
- **Organizations:** Princeton University, The Believer, The Village Voice, Penguin Press, Amazon Publishing, Poetry Foundation
- **From:** Buffalo, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BA in English, Yale University, MFA, Columbia University
- **Known for:** 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist in Fiction for Same Bed Different Dreams, Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction for Same Bed Different Dreams, 2025 Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

## Career timeline

- **1970** — Born in Buffalo, New York, to Korean parents.
- **1995** — Completed an MFA at Columbia University after studying English at Yale.
- **1990s-2000s** — Worked at The Village Voice, eventually serving as literary editor.
- **2003** — Became a founding editor of The Believer.
- **2006** — After leaving The Village Voice, began circulating the PDF-only newsletter The New-York Ghost.
- **2007-2011** — Wrote the Astral Weeks science-fiction column for the Los Angeles Times.
- **2008** — Published his debut novel, Personal Days, later a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist.
- **2011** — Joined Amazon Publishing as a senior editor and later led the literary imprint Little A.
- **2014** — Joined Penguin Press as executive editor.
- **2018-2021** — Wrote a graphic-novel column for The New York Times Book Review.
- **2023** — Published Same Bed Different Dreams after roughly nine years of work.
- **2024** — Won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction and became a Pulitzer Prize finalist in fiction.
- **2025** — Published An Oral History of Atlantis and received the Arts and Letters Award in Literature and the Deborah Pease Prize.
- **2026** — An Oral History of Atlantis was longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award; Three Tenses was published in August.
- **2026-09** — The illustrated horror flip volume The Repairer of Reputations was scheduled for September 29.

## Achievements

- 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist in Fiction for Same Bed Different Dreams
- Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction for Same Bed Different Dreams
- 2025 Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 2025 Deborah Pease Prize from A Public Space
- 2026 PEN/Faulkner Award longlist for An Oral History of Atlantis
- PEN/Hemingway Award finalist for Personal Days
- Founding editor of The Believer
- Personal Days was named one of Time's ten best fiction books of 2008

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — The Repairer of Reputations, an illustrated flip volume pairing Park's contemporary horror story with Robert W. Chambers's 1895 story, was scheduled for publication on September 29.
- **2026-08** — Random House published Three Tenses: A Transmission From the Nineties on August 11.
- **2026-07** — The paperback edition of An Oral History of Atlantis was published on July 21.
- **2026-02** — An Oral History of Atlantis was named to the 2026 PEN/Faulkner Award longlist.
- **2025-10** — Park received the Deborah Pease Prize from A Public Space.

## Links

- Website: https://ed-park.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tharealedpark/

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