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Paul Yoon

Honoree, 2010 5 Under 35

Paul Yoon was born in New York City. He is the author of Once the Shore, which was a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 selection, and the novel Snow Hunters, which won the 2014 Young Lions Fiction Award. He is currently a Fellow at the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.

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Kate Walbert
Kate Walbert made her writing debut in 1998 with Where She Went, a collection of interlinked stories that was a New York Times Notable Book in 1998. She is also the author of The Gardens of Kyoto, a novel; and has published fiction and articles in The New York Times, Paris Review, and DoubleTake. Recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, she teaches writing at Yale and lives in New York City and Stony Creek, Connecticut.

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Paul Yoon

Paul Yoon was born in New York City. He is the author of Once the Shore, which was a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 selection, and the novel Snow Hunters, which won the 2014 Young Lions Fiction Award. He is currently a Fellow at the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.

Paul Yoon

Honoree, 2010 5 Under 35

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Once the Shore

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