Grace M. Cho is a nonfiction writer and Professor of Sociology at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York (CUNY). She is the author of Tastes Like War<\/i>, a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award in nonfiction and winner of the 2022 Asian Pacific American Literature Award in adult nonfiction, and Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War<\/i>, recipient of a 2010 book award from the American Sociological Association.<\/i> Her writings have appeared in The Nation,<\/i> Catapult, The New Inquiry, PoemMemoirStory,<\/i> Contexts<\/i>, Gastronomica,<\/i> and elsewhere. She has received awards and fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, Marble House Project, Monson Arts, Convent Arts, the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center, and the Professional Staff Congress of CUNY.<\/p>
Cho\u2019s current book project (under contract with Viking Press) is a hybrid work of creative nonfiction and interdisciplinary scholarship that examines the Korean War through the lens of her family\u2019s experience of the war\u2019s devastation and afterlife. Drawing on archival research, family interviews, investigation reports from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Korea, and witness testimonies from South Korea\u2019s bereaved families\u2019 associations, it juxtaposes the official U.S. narrative of the Korean War\u2014as a righteous war that gave South Koreans their freedom and protected U.S. interests\u2014with a counter-narrative of genocide and ongoing violence.<\/p>