Sena Moon is a South Korean writer and translator. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including ''

Kenyon Review ''The Kenyon Review'' is a literary magazine based in Gambier, Ohio, home of Kenyon College. ''The Review'' was founded in 1939 by John Crowe Ransom, critic and professor of English at Kenyon College, who served as its editor until 1959 in litera ...

'' and ''Boulevard'', and has won several prizes. A graduate of the

University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...

Helen Zell Writers' Program, she is a 2024–26 Stegner Fellow at

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

and considered an emerging fiction writer by

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Career

Moon is a graduate of the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan and a Stegner Fellow in fiction at

in the 2024–26 cohort. Her fiction has appeared in ''

'', ''Guernica'', and others. Her nonfiction has appeared in ''

The Fiddlehead ''The Fiddlehead'' is a Canadian literary magazine, published four times annually at the University of New Brunswick. It is the oldest Canadian literary magazine which is still in circulation. History and profile ''The Fiddlehead'' was establ ...

''. Moon has won several contests for her writing. In 2018, she won third place ''

Glimmer Train ''Glimmer Train'' was an American short story literary journal. It was published quarterly, accepting works primarily from emerging writers. Stories published in ''Glimmer Train'' were listed in ''The Best American Short Stories'', as well as ap ...

'' Short-Story Award for New Writer. In 2019, Moon's short story "Homing Spoons" won ''Boulevard'''s Short Fiction Contest. In 2020, Moon won the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers for her short story, "Dog Dreams", which appeared first in ''

Quarterly West ''Quarterly West'' is an American literary magazine based at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Stories that have appeared in ''Quarterly West'' have been shortlisted for the Pushcart Prize, The Best American Short Stories and the O. H ...

''. It was subsequently published by ''Catapult'' in the anthology, ''Best Debut Short Stories 2020: The PEN America Dau Prize''; in the anthology's introduction, editor Yuka Igarashi called it "beguiling". As a recipient of the prize, Sena Moon has continued to receive support from

as an emerging fiction writer. In 2021, an excerpt of Moon's novel-in-progress, ''Familiar Strangers'', won second place in the ''CRAFT Magazine'' First Chapters Contest. In 2023, her short story "Slow and Then Fast" won the ''Carve Magazine'' Prose & Poetry Contest.

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