Our next Letter in the Mail comes from R. O. Kwon! R. O. Kwon sends a wonderful letter about the times she kept quiet but wishes she hadn’t, resolving to speak up in the future, and wanting to “live loud and wide and tall.”
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R. O. Kwon’s first novel, The Incendiaries, is out from Riverhead in July of 2018. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing is published or forthcoming in The Guardian, Vice, Time, Noon, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, 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.
