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Patty Yumi Cottrell (born May 20, 1981) is a Korean-American novelist. She was born in South Korea and raised in Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Milwaukee. Cottrell's debut novel, Sorry To Disrupt the Peace, won the 2018 Whiting Awards in Fiction. It was also long-listed for the Times Literary Supplement's Republic of Consciousness Prize, and is the winner of the Best First Book – Fiction 2017 National Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards and Barnes & Noble’s 2017 Discover Award for Fiction. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Guernica, BOMB, Gulf Coast, and others. She lives in Brooklyn.