She was the recipient of the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize in Poetry in 2009 and received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in Creative Writing in 2014. It was also listed as one of Booklist’s 10 Best Debut Novels in addition to being recognized by the San Francisco Chronicle and Bookpage.Ĭhung’s short stories and essays have been published in The New York Times, The Rumpus and Granta. Released to great acclaim in June of 2019, her novel, The Tenth Muse, is an intricately layered story about a female mathematician who tries to unlock a mathematical theorem while investigating the mysteries surrounding her identity that were buried in Germany during World War II.Ĭhung’s first novel, Forgotten Country, was awarded an Honorable Mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award in 2013.
Writing about family and the search for identity, Catherine Chung has published two best-selling novels.
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