User:Dsmbgn/"Ed Park"

Ed Park is an American writer and editor born in Buffalo, New York, in 1970. With Heidi Julavits and Vendela Vida, he started the magazine The Believer, published by McSweeney's. His novel, Personal Days, was published by Random House in 2008.

Fiction
Personal Days was a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and the [John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize]http://www.mercantilelibrary.org/awards/sargent.php.

Writing and Editing
Park was a senior editor at The Village Voice newspaper in New York City, where he was also editor of the Voice Literary Supplement. In addition to reviewing books, he wrote frequently on film, and occasionally on theater and art.

He was briefly associate editor at the Poetry Foundation, where he is now a contributing editor. He is also a contributing editor for Modern Painters.

His reviews and articles have appeared in the New York Times, The Boston Globe, Bookforum, Salon, Moving Image Source, and many other places. He writes frequently for the Los Angeles Times, where he writes Astral Weeks, a monthly column on science fiction.

In 2009, his nonfiction appeared in Burn This Book (edited by Toni Morrison) and Read Hard, an anthology of writing from The Believer. He also wrote an essay for Exilee and Temps Morts, a collection of pieces by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.

Miscellaneous
Park puts out [The New-York Ghost], a once weekly, now irregular PDF publication. He is a graduate of Yale University and Columbia University's School of the Arts.