Grace Cho

Artist Statement

I situate my work in the overlapping margins of creative nonfiction and interdisciplinary scholarship, exploring the ways in which geopolitical and structural violence leave an imprint on the collective psyche. I am particularly interested in the Korean War, the generations-long impact it has had on civilians, and the repression of its memory in our national narratives.

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Bio

Grace M. Cho is the author of Tastes Like War (Feminist Press, 2021), a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award in nonfiction and the winner of the 2022 Asian Pacific American Literature Award in adult nonfiction. Her first book, Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), received a 2010 outstanding book award from the American Sociological Association. Her writings have appeared in The Nation, Catapult, The New Inquiry, Poem Memoir Story, Contexts, Gastronomica, Feminist Studies, Women's Studies Quarterly, and Qualitative Inquiry. She is Professor of Sociology at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.

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