Pronouns: she/her

Jen is a Korean American writer, baker, and mental health advocate with more than a decade in recovery from alcoholism and bulimia. She is currently at work on Bad Magic, a coming-of-age addiction memoir which examines how we return to our true selves after reality and illusion become one. She is a 2023 Periplus Fellow and has received support from Anaphora Arts, Stove Works, and Tin House Summer Workshop. In 2021, she published Have You Received Previous Psychotherapy or Counseling? through zines + things and her essays can be found in Provecho, The Rumpus, Memoir Magazine, and elsewhere. Her work has been recognized locally through her food + writing workshop series, Feasting on Words, which has been funded by the Regional Arts & Culture Council.