R. O. Kwon’s first novel, Heroics, is forthcoming from Riverhead. She is a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, and her writing has been published or is forthcoming in NOON, The Guardian, VICE, Ploughshares, The Believer, and elsewhere. Named one of Narrative's “30 Below 30” writers, she has received fellowships from Yaddo and Omi International, as well as scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ conferences.