Silvia Park grew up in Seoul and has spent most of her life in Korea. She received her BA from Columbia and her MFA from NYU, in addition to completing the Clarion Workshop in 2018 on the George R.R. Martin "Sense of Wonder" Fellowship. Her short fiction has been published in Black Warrior Review, Joyland and Tor.com, nominated for a Pushcart and reprinted in the 2019 Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy.