Susan Choi

Susan Choi is the author of Flashlight and five other novels, including Trust Exercise, which received the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction. She teaches at the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Brooklyn.

When Fact-Checking Meant Something

A new novel captures a bygone era in New York journalism
Susan Choi
June 9, 2025
Photo of Alexander Chee; photo of Julia Cho; photo of Susan Choi; photo of Cathy Park Hong
Conversations

Finding a Literary Inheritance

Four Korean American writers on jeong and the elusiveness of home
Alexander Chee,
Julia Cho,
Susan Choi,
and
Cathy Park Hong
December 1, 2020