Jung Hae Chae

Discipline: Fiction/Nonfiction Writing

Based In: Livingston, NJ

Year at Millay: 2022

Awards/Honors: Fellow, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (2025); Writer-in-Residence, The Sue-Je Gage Sunlit Residency, Ithaca, NY (2024); Award Winner, Sustainable Arts Foundation, San Francisco, CA (2023); Participant, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT (2022); Grant Recipient, Literature, Creative Fellowships, Mid Atlantic Arts, Baltimore, MD (2022); Prize Winner, Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, MN (2022); Fellow, Individual Artist Fellowship, New Jersey State Council on the Arts (2022); Prize Winner, Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize, "swamp pink," College of Charleston, Charleston, SC (2021); Prize Winner, Nonfiction, Emerging Writer's Contest in Nonfiction, "Ploughshares," Emerson College, Boston, MA (2019); Prize Winner, Nonfiction, Pushcart Prize (2019); Participant, The Community of Writers, Olympic Valley, CA (2019).

Website: https://www.instagram.com/chaejunghae/

Jung Hae Chae is a Korean-American writer and the author of the forthcoming memoir-in-essays, Pojangmacha People, winner of the 2022 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. Jung Hae’s writing can be found in AGNI, Guernica, New England Review, Ploughshares, swamp pink (formerly Crazyhorse), and in anthologies including The Best American Essays and the Pushcart Prize anthologies. A recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and Sustainable Arts Foundation, as well as scholarships from Bread Loaf, Sewanee, Community of Writers, among others, she lives with her daughter in Northern New Jersey.