First Taste, Author Talk
Join authors Caroline Choe, Jimin Han, Patricia Park, and Hyeseung Song for a discussion and book talk “First taste: four Korean American writers on food, books, and memory. October 3rd at 2pm.
Caroline Choe is a chef, artist, teacher and writer based in New York City, and is a proud daughter of Korean American immigrants. She recently published her debut cookbook, "Banchan: 60 Korean American Recipes for Delicious, Shareable Sides" with Chronicle Books, named as one of "The 26 Best Cookbooks for 2024" by Serious Eats.
She is also the founder of Create & Plate, a business devoted to helping create community through arts and food education. Choe continues to be involved in schools throughout New York City, and has coordinated, moderated, and spoken on panels for The Korea Society and the Museum of Food & Drink (MOFAD.) Both she and her work have been featured in NPR, Food52, The Korea Daily, NBC's Today Show, and Good Morning America. Caroline Choe @CaroChoe @CreateAndPlate @Exploratorians Founder Create & Plate LLC
Patricia Park writes adult, YA, and middle grade novels. Her books include What’s Eating Jackie Oh?; Imposter Syndrome & Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim, named NPR’s Best YA Books of the Year; and Ambrosia Lee Drops the Mic, about an aspiring stand-up comedian. Her adult novel Re Jane, a Korean American retelling of Brontë’s Jane Eyre was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. She has written for The New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, and others. All of her novels have overlapping characters and are linked in the “Queens Multiverse.” www.patriciapark.com
Jimin Han is the author of three novels, Dreamt I Found You, A Small Revolution, and The Apology, which was a Barnes and Noble Discover Pick and featured on multiple best books lists by the Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, Shondaland, Apple Books and more. Additional writing of hers can be found on NPR, as well as in Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, and other publications. She teaches at The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College and community writing centers. Her work has been supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.
Hyeseung Song is a first-generation Korean American painter, writer and teacher. She is the author of Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl, about an Asian American woman’s struggle with self-worth and mental illness.
Raised in Texas, Song studied philosophy and law at Princeton and Harvard, before dropping out to study painting in New York. Her visual work has been supported by numerous foundations, and she has taught at the SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology, the Queens Council on the Arts and the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Song is a 2026 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Nonfiction Literature, a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference as a Nonfiction Fellow and a recipient of the Mae Fellowship which supported women and nonbinary writers. She is at work on a meta-memoir about revision, portrayal and surviving writing about those we love. She lives in New York City.