JOSEPH HAN (he/they) was born in Korea and raised in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. He is a 2022 National Book Foundation 5 under 35 Honoree and the author of a debut novel, NUCLEAR FAMILY (Counterpoint Press 2022), which was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, NPR Best Book of 2022, amd one of Time Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022. His book won the 2023 Asian/Pacific American Literature Award Adult Fiction Honor and the 2024 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. It was also long-listed for the 2023 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and short-listed for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. In 2023, he received the Elliot Cades Award for Literature for Emerging Artist from the Hawaiʻi Literary Arts Council.

His writing has appeared in Gulf Coast, The Sun Magazine, The Rumpus, New York Times Magazine, and Lit Hub. A Kundiman Fiction fellow, he’s taught as an Affiliate Faculty in Fiction at the Antioch University Los Angeles low-residency MFA in Creative Writing program, and is joining the English Department at the University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa as an Assistant Professor in Creative Writing in Fall 2024. He is an Editor for the West region of Joyland Magazine, and co-chair of the Kundiman Hawaiʻi Regional Group (sign-up here). Currently, he is working on a second novel.