born Appleton, Wisconsin 1965
Yale University, B.A. East Asian Studies
University of Iowa Writers Workshop, M.F.A.
Inheritance, W. W. Norton, August 2004
Hunger: A Novella and Stories, W. W. Norton, 1998
fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, and The Best American Short Stories
fellowships from Stanford University, Princeton University, the Radcliffe Institute, and the National Endowment for the Arts
has taught in the M.F.A. programs at The University of Iowa and Warren Wilson College
currently Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard University
"I began to understand," Min reflects at one point, "that to love another was to be custodian of that person's decline -- to know this fate, hold onto it and live."
Anna Shin review in SCRAAL Seattle Contemporary Review of Asian American Literature
reviewed by Beth Wolfensberger Singer in Salon