Sena Moon
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Sena Moon is a South Korean writer and translator. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Kenyon Review and Boulevard, and has won several prizes.[1][2] A graduate of the Helen Zell Writers' Program, she is a 2024–26 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and considered an emerging fiction writer by PEN America.[3]
Career
[edit]Moon is a graduate of the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan and a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University in the 2024–26 cohort.[2][4] Her fiction has appeared in Kenyon Review, Guernica, and others.[1][5] Her nonfiction has appeared in The Fiddlehead.[6]
Moon has won several contests for her writing. In 2018, she won third place Glimmer Train's Short-Story Award for New Writer.[2] In 2019, Moon's short story "Homing Spoons" won Boulevard's Short Fiction Contest.[7] In 2020, Moon won the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers for her short story, "Dog Dreams", which appeared first in Quarterly West.[8][9] It was subsequently published by Catapult in the anthology, Best Debut Short Stories 2020: The PEN America Dau Prize; in the anthology's introduction, editor Yuka Igarashi called it "beguiling".[2][10] As a recipient of the prize, Sena Moon has continued to receive support from PEN America as an emerging fiction writer.[11] In 2021, an excerpt of Moon's novel-in-progress, Familiar Strangers, won second place in the CRAFT Magazine First Chapters Contest.[12] In 2023, her short story "Slow and Then Fast" won the Carve Magazine Prose & Poetry Contest.[13]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Sept/Oct 2022 | Journal". The Kenyon Review. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
- ^ a b c d "A Conversation With Best Debut Short Stories 2020 Author Sena Moon". Retrieved 2024-11-08.
- ^ Anderson, Porter (2020-03-06). "PEN America's 2020 Literary Award Winners". Publishing Perspectives. Retrieved 2024-11-10.
- ^ "2024-2026 Stegner Fellows | Creative Writing Program". creativewriting.stanford.edu. 2024-06-26. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
- ^ Moon, Sena (2023-05-01). "This Back Is a Familiar Back". Guernica. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
- ^ Moon, Sena (June 28, 2022). "Sena Moon's Reading Recommendation | The Fiddlehead". thefiddlehead.ca. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
- ^ "Announcement: The Winner of the 2019 Short Fiction Contest Is Sena Moon!". Boulevard. 2020-06-07. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
- ^ Moon, Sena. "Dog Dreams". Quarterly West. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
- ^ "PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers". PEN America. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
- ^ Igarashi, Yuka (2020-08-10). "Rumpus Exclusive: The Intro to Best Debut Short Stories 2020". The Rumpus. Retrieved 2024-11-10.
- ^ "What to Read When You're a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize Winner". The Rumpus. 2020-08-28. Retrieved 2024-11-10.
- ^ Moon, Sena (2021-12-10). "Familiar Strangers by Sena Moon". CRAFT. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
- ^ Moon, Sena (2023-10-01). "Slow and Then Fast by Sena Moon (Fiction Winner)". Carve Magazine. Retrieved 2024-11-08.