What's Eating Jackie Oh?

Patricia Park is a tenured professor of creative writing at American University, a Fulbright Scholar in Creative Arts, and a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. Her debut YA novel, Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim, received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal and was an NPR Book of the Day. Patricia’ s novel, What’ s Eating Jackie Oh? is inspired by her love of watching competitive TV cooking shows and creating somewhat edible meals from leftovers. It was also inspired by Patricia’ s New York Times op-ed, “ I’ m Done Being Your Model Minority. ” Patricia’ s writing has also appeared in the New Yorker, the Guardian, Salon, and others.