January Gill O'Neil and Jimin Han

Chautauqua Writers' Center Faculty Reading-- Featuring January Gill O'Neil (Poetry) and Jimin Han (Prose) January Gill O'Neil is a professor at Salem State University and the author of Glitter Road (2024), Rewilding( 2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009), all published by CavanKerry Press. Glitter Road received the 2024 Poetry by the Sea Best Book Award and the Julia Ward Howe Prize and was a finalist for several honors, including the Massachusetts Book Award. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Poetry, The Nation, and American Poetry Review. A Cave Canem fellow, she served as executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival from 2012 to 2018 and was the 2019-2020 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. She is a former chair of the AWP Board of Directors and its longest-serving current board member, and she teaches graduate poetry writing in the summer program at Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English. 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. She teaches at The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College and community writing centers. Her work has been supported by the New York State Council on the Arts. Born in South Korea, she grew up in Providence, Rhode Island; Dayton, Ohio; and Jamestown, New York. Currently, she lives outside New York City.