Jennifer Hope Choi is the recipient of the 2020-2022 Tulsa Artist Fellowship, the Carson McCullers Center’s Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellowship, the BuzzFeed Emerging Writer Fellowship, and the AHL Foundation’s inaugural Wolhee Choe Art Writers Grant. She is also a Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conference scholar and an Aspen Words fellow. She has been anthologized in Best American Travel Writing and A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of Color on the New American South. Her writing has appeared in many places, including The New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, Guernica, Lucky Peach, BuzzFeed News, Afar, and Bon Appétit, where she worked as a senior editor of lifestyle and cooking. Choi is also a guest lecturer and has spoken at academic institutions such as University of Oklahoma, Columbia University, Columbus State University, and the University of Minnesota. Her first book, The Wanderer’s Curse (Norton, 2025), was featured in The New Yorker, Elle, and named one of the most anticipated books of the year by Condé Nast Traveler, Garden & Gun, and elsewhere.

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