ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½â€™s English Department Names Silvia Park its 2025 Visiting Writer

Stevenson’s English Department has announced Silvia Park as its 2025 Visiting Writer.
Silvia Park grew up in Seoul and split their time between Korea and America. Park currently teaches fiction at the University of Kansas. They received a B.A. from Columbia, an M.F.A. from NYU, and attended the Clarion Science and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop and the Tin House Summer Workshop.
Their short fiction has been published in Black Warrior Review, Joyland, Reactor, and reprinted in The Best American Science Fiction And Fantasy 2019. Their first novel, , was published by Simon & Schuster in 2025. The speculative fiction novel is set in a near-future unified Korea and follows three estranged siblings—two human, one robot—as they collide against the backdrop of a murder investigation to settle old scores and make sense of their shattered childhood.
On Tuesday, April 1, Park will present a public reading followed by discussion and refreshments in the Rockland Ballroom.
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