Susan Choi

Susan Choi was born in 1969 in South Bend, Indiana, to a Korean father and Jewish American mother. She studied at Yale University and earned an MFA from Cornell University. She is a professor of writing at Yale and has taught at Princeton, Cornell, and other universities. Choi's novels include The Foreign Student (1998), American Woman (2003, a Pulitzer Prize finalist), A Person of Interest (2008), My Education (2013), and Trust Exercise (2019), which won the National Book Award for Fiction. Trust Exercise, a metafictional exploration of memory, consent, and the unreliable nature of story set in a performing arts high school in the 1980s, won wide acclaim. Her novel Flashlight (2025) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.