Victoria Namkung

journalist

born Orange County, California

University of California, Santa Barbara, BA, Asian American Studies

University of California, Los Angeles, MA, 2000. Her thesis was on import car racing in southern California.

Victoria Namkung is an author and journalist whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, NBC News, VICE, Washington Post, USA Today, and InStyle, among other publications. She's the author of the novels, The Things We Tell Ourselves and These Violent Delights. Visit Victoria at www.victorianamkung.com.

her uncle is the eminent photographer Johsel Namkung


Victoria Namkung


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