Olivia Jung was born in Mokpo, South Korea and raised in Massachusetts. A multi-genre writer, she won the 2019 Pigeon Pages Essay Contest, is anthologized in Best of the Net 2020 and won the 2024 Chautauqua Janus Prize. Her work has appeared in Post Road Magazine, CutBank Literary Magazine, Pilgrimage Magazine, Pigeon Pages, Hoxie Gorge Review, and other publications. She is the recipient of an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and has taught at the Westchester County Department of Corrections, Pace University, and The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College.
