Join us for a panel with Caroline Choe, Jimin Han, Patricia Park, and Hyeseung Song for a cozy night discussing food motivation in their books, along with some shared autumn eats by Caroline Choe!

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Caroline Choe is a chef, artist, teacher and writer based in New York City, and is a proud daughter of Korean American immigrants. She recently published her debut cookbook, “Banchan: 60 Korean American Recipes for Delicious, Shareable Sides” with Chronicle Books, named as one of “The 26 Best Cookbooks for 2024” by Serious Eats, and one of the “Top 10 Korean Cookbook Bestsellers in 2026” by Publishers’ Weekly. She is also the founder of Create & Plate, a business devoted to helping create community through arts and food education. Choe continues to be involved in schools throughout New York City, and has coordinated, moderated, and spoken on panels for The Korea Society and the Museum of Food & Drink (MOFAD.) Both she and her work have been featured in NPR, Food52, The Korea Daily, NBC’s Today Show, and Good Morning America.

Jimin Han is the author of three novels, Dreamt I Found You, A Small Revolution, and The Apology, which was a Barnes and Noble Discover Pick, named a best audiobook of the year by Booklist, and featured on multiple best books lists by the Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, Shondaland, Apple Books and more. Additional writing of hers can be found on NPR, as well as in Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, and other publications. Her work has been supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.

Patricia Park is the author of Re Jane, a Korean American retelling of Brontë’s Jane Eyre, and the YA novels What’s Eating Jackie Oh?, Imposter Syndrome & Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim, and Ambrosia Lee Drops the Mic. She has written for The New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, and others. All of her novels have overlapping characters and are linked in the “Queens Multiverse.” She teaches creative writing at SUNY Stony Brook. www.patriciapark.com

Hyeseung Song is a first-generation Korean American painter, writer and teacher. She is the author of Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl, about an Asian American woman’s struggle with self-worth and mental illness. Docile was a “best” audiobook at Apple and translated into Korean. Song is a 2026 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Nonfiction Literature, a 2026 Nonfiction Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and a recipient of the Mae Fellowship which supported women and nonbinary writers. She is at work on a meta-memoir exploring the eternal question plaguing nonfiction writers: how to survive writing about those we love. Song splits her time between New York City and the Catskills.