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Gina Chung

James Clear

Gina Chung is a Korean American writer from New Jersey currently living in New York City. She is the author of the novel Sea Change, which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, a 2023 B&N Discover Pick, an APALA Adult Fiction Honor Book, and a New York Times Most Anticipated Book, and the short story collection Green Frog, which was a Good Morning America Book Buzz Pick, named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2024, and longlisted for the 2024 New American Voices Award. A recipient of the Pushcart Prize, she is a 2021-2022 Center for Fiction/Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellow and holds an MFA in fiction from The New School. She is a faculty member of the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program at Lasell University.

The Masters Review Best Emerging Writers 2024

Atomic Habits by James Clear

The Masters Review’s Best Emerging Writers 2024 features ten short stories and essays from promising writers around the world, selected by guest judge Gina Chung. “These stories ask questions about power, intimacy, control, our imperfect knowledge of one another and the world around us,” Chung writes in her introduction. “There is heartbreak and suffering here, as well as healing, of a kind.” Take a chance on these emerging masters of craft, and we promise you’ll be surprised.