
Jenny McKean Moore Community Reading Featuring Memoirist Kat Chow, author of Seeing Ghosts in Conversation with Writer Jung Yun
Thursday, March 27 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
$10.00
Kat Chow is a reporter, teacher, writer and the author of Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir (Grand Central Publishing), named a Notable Book by The New York Times. She is The George Washington University’s 2024-2025 Jenny McKean Moore Writer-In-Washington, where she teaches Creative Nonfiction. She was a reporter at NPR, where she was a founding member of the Code Switch team and podcast. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, New York Magazine’s The Cut and on Radiolab, among others. She’s a contributor to Pop Culture Happy Hour and Slate’s Culture Gabfest, and has hosted Slate’s The Waves. She’s received residency fellowships from Storyknife, Millay Arts and the Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat. She has led classes and spoken about her reporting in Amsterdam, Calgary, Karachi, Minneapolis, Louisville, Boston, Seattle and many other places.

Jung Yun is an associate professor of English at George Washington University.
She is the author of O BEAUTIFUL, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year, as well SHELTER, which was long listed for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award. Her third novel, ALL THE WORLD CAN HOLD, is forthcoming from 37 Ink/Simon & Schuster. Yun’s short fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in Tin House, the Massachusetts Review, the New York Times, the Atlantic, and the Washington Post, among others. Currently, she serves on the Board of Directors of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and chairs the Selection Committee for the Bernard Malamud Award for Excellence in the Art of the Short Story.
Books will be available for sale. A book signing will follow the conversation.
(Kat Chow Photo Credit: Ariel Zembelich)