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R.O. Kwon

Biography

R.O. Kwon

R.O. Kwon is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing is published or forthcoming in The Guardian, Vice, Buzzfeed, Time, Noon, Electric Literature, Playboy and elsewhere. She has received awards from Yaddo, MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Omi International, the Steinbeck Center, and the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. Born in South Korea, she has lived most of her life in the United States.

R.O. Kwon

Books by R.O. Kwon

Exhibit
by R.O. Kwon - Fiction, Women's Fiction

At a lavish party outside the hills of San Francisco, photographer Jin Han meets injured world-class ballerina Lidija Jung. After meeting, nothing will ever be the same for either woman. Jin is at a crossroads in her work, marriage and who she is and who wants to be. Lidija is on hiatus from her ballet company under mysterious circumstances. Jin and Lidija are drawn to each other's artistic drives and talk all night. Jin finds herself telling Lidij about a family curse, breaking a lifelong promise. She's been told if she reveals the secret curse she will risk losing everything. The more entangled Lidija and Jin become, they realize they share more than just ambition and explore hidden desires. Everything is changing for Jin, but can she avoid the specter of the curse?

The Incendiaries
by R.O. Kwon - Fiction

Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet in their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn't tell anyone she blames herself for her mother's recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe. Grieving and guilt-ridden, Phoebe is drawn into a secretive cult founded by a charismatic former student with an enigmatic past. When the group commits a violent act in the name of faith, Will finds himself struggling to confront a new version of the fanaticism he's worked so hard to escape.