Nami Mun Reading

~ McGill University’s Department of English presents ~

a reading by the award-winning, bestselling novelist

Nami Mun

Free and open to the public

NAMI MUN is the author of the debut novel, Miles from Nowhere (Riverhead), which was shortlisted for the Orange Award and selected for Booklist Editors’ Choice, Booklist Top Ten First Novels, Amazon’s Best Fiction of 2009 So Far, and Indie Next. Named Best New Novelist of 2009 by Chicago magazine, she is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a 2009 Whiting Award.

Mun, who currently lives and teaches in Chicago, was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up there and in Bronx, New York. She has worked as an Avon Lady, a street vendor, 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 received the first place Hopwood Award for short fiction. She has garnered scholarships from the Corporation of Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, Squaw Valley Writer’s Conference, and Tin House Writer’s Conference, and her stories have been published or are forthcoming in Granta, Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Iowa Review, Tin House, Evergreen Review, Witness, and elsewhere.