Originally born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Korean-American author Samuel Park graduated from Stanford University and University of Southern California, where he earned his doctorate in English. He is the author of This Burns My Heart, which was chosen as one of Amazon’s Best Books of 2011, a People magazine “Great Reads in Fiction,” and one of the Today show’s Favorite Things. This Burns My Heart was also a Kirkus Review’s Best Fiction of 2011, a BookPage Best Book of 2011, and an Indie Next List Notable Book. Park’s other work includes the novella Shakespeare’s Sonnets and the short film of the same name, which he wrote and directed. He lives in Chicago, where he is an Assistant Professor of English at Columbia College Chicago.
