Patricia Park is the author of award-winning adult literary and young adult novels. Her first novel, Re Jane (Viking, 2015), a contemporary retelling of Brontë’s Jane Eyre set in New York and Seoul, was named New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, an American Library Association Award winner, an Oprah Magazine pick, an NPR “Fresh Air” pick, and was in development for a TV series with Paramount.
Her debut YA novel, Imposter Syndrome & Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim (Random House Children’s, 2023), about a Korean Argentinian American teen navigating mental health issues, was named NPR’s Best YA Books of 2023 and a Gotham Book Prize finalist. Her YA/middle grade crossover novel What’s Eating Jackie Oh? (Random House Children’s, 2024), about a teen chef who competes on a TV cooking show and resists the model minority trope, was named Kirkus Reviews’ Best YA Books, Bank Street’s Best Books of the Year, and was a finalist for the Green Mountain Book Award. Her novel Ambrosia Lee Drops the Mic (Random House Children’s, 2026) garnered starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Kirkus and is about an aspiring stand-up comedian; to research the novel, Park went “method” and performed stand-up comedy around the city. All of her novels, with overlapping characters and set in Queens, NY, are linked in the “Queens Multiverse.”
Park has written for the New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, and others; including her Times op-ed “I’m Done Being Your Model Minority.” She has a Fulbright Scholar, an Edith Wharton Writer-in-Residence, and a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. Park graduated from the Bronx High School of Science, Swarthmore College (BA with High Honors in English Literature and a concentration in Poetry), and Boston University (MFA in Fiction).