N. Jooyoun Kim is the New York Times bestselling author of What We Kept to Ourselves and The Last Story of Mina Lee. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, NPR/PRI’s Selected Shorts, Guernica, San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, and elsewhere. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she now lives in the Bay Area and teaches creative writing at the University of San Francisco and Saint Mary’s College of California.