Nami Mun grew up in Seoul, South Korea and Bronx, New York. For her first book, Miles from Nowhere, she received a Whiting Award and a Pushcart Prize, and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers and the Asian American Literary Award. Previously, Nami has worked as an Avon Lady, a photojournalist, a waitress, an activities coordinator for a nursing home, and a criminal defense investigator. After earning a GED, she went on to get a BA in English from UC Berkeley and an MFA from University of Michigan, where she garnered the Hopwood Award for fiction and the Farrar Prize for playwriting. Her stories have been published in numerous magazines, including Granta, Tin House, the Iowa Review, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology.
