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 longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award. His latest books (2026) are the memoir Three Tenses: A Transmission From the Nineties and The Repairer of Reputations, a work of weird horror.

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. 

He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Harper’s, The Atlantic, Bookforum, McSweeney’s, and many other places. He is a founding editor of The Believer and the former literary editor of The Village Voice, and has worked in book publishing. He teaches writing at Princeton University.