about

Ed Park is the author of the novels Same Bed Different Dreams (2023), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Personal Days (2008), a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His debut story collection, An Oral History of Atlantis, was published in July 2025. His fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Harper’s, The Atlantic, Bookforum, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. He is a founding editor of The Believer and the former literary editor of The Village Voice, and has worked in newspapers and book publishing.

In 2025, Park received the Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Deborah Pease Prize from A Public Space. His memoir, Three Tenses, is forthcoming in Summer 2026, followed in the fall by The Repairer of Reputations, a work of weird horror bound in a special edition with the 1895 Robert W. Chambers classic of the same title.