A recent graduate of Brown University, Kion You is a freelance writer based in Seoul, South Korea. His writing has appeared in The Rumpus, The Los Angeles Review, Rewire, and The College Hill Independent.

Kion You

“The Jarringness of Witnessing”: A Conversation with Anuk Arudpragasam

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

My Year Abroad

The Vertigo of East Asia: On Chang-rae Lee’s “My Year Abroad”

Tonal Intelligence

Reading for Unreadability: Racializing Asians During the Long Cold War

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

Parachutes

David Tung Can’t Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College

College Admissions Fiction and the Asian American Teen Imaginary

Education

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
— Dr. Seuss

Young Adult &amp; Children’s Literature

A recent graduate of Brown University, Kion You is a freelance writer based in Seoul, South Korea. His writing has appeared in The Rumpus, The Los Angeles Review, Rewire, and The College Hill Independent.