Catherine Chung is the author of Forgotten Country, and the recipient of a 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and an Honorable Mention for the 2013 PEN/Hemingway Award. She co-edits the PEN/Guernica Flash Series, and teaches at Adelphi University. She is currently a visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and is working on her next novel, The Tenth Muse.