Jennifer Hope Choi is the recipient of the Carson McCullers Center's Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellowship, the BuzzFeed Emerging Writer Fellowship, and the B. Frank Vogel Scholarship at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her writing is forthcoming or has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, The American Scholar, Lucky Peach, BuzzFeed Reader, The Atlantic, Best American Travel Writing 2018, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a memoir.