Paul Yoon

Biography

Paul Yoon is the author of Once the Shore (Sarabande, 2009), Snow Hunters (Simon & Schuster, 2013), The Mountain (Simon & Schuster, 2017), and Run Me to Earth (Simon & Schuster, 2020). A recipient of a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, he lives in the Hudson Valley, New York. His new book, The Hive and the Honey (Simon & Schuster, 2023), is forthcoming.

See Work

FICTION / Spring/Summer 2023

Matanzas

By Paul Yoon ,  Illustration by Hanna Barczyk

They were gathered in a field, six boys, playing a game he didn’t know.

Illustration by Hanna Barczyk
FICTION / Fall 2016

Galicia

By Paul Yoon ,  Illustration by Chloe Scheffe

Antje came to Spain three years ago. She worked as a hotel maid in San Sebastián, where she met Mathis and married him. He was a manager at the hotel. He was eight years older. She was twenty-four and had left Germany after her mother died...