Stephanie Han

Dr. Stephanie Han is an author, educator, and speaker. She authored Swimming in Hong Kong, recipient of the Paterson Fiction Prize, finalist for AWP’s Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction and the Spokane Prize, and shortlisted for the Asian Books Blog Award. Han received grants and fellowships from PEN, VONA, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and was City University of Hong Kong's inaugural English Literature PhD graduate. She lives in Hawai’i, home of her family since 1904. She teaches writing workshops at drstephaniehan.com

Early Life
Stephanie Han is her pen name. Han is my mother's birth name. She chose it to honor her maternal line, the aesthetics of assonance (StepHANie, and HAN), the Korean language meaning of HAN--an untranslatable word, but one that evokes in the Korean language, a feeling of memory, understanding, pathos, resilience, and connection. She grew up all over the US and briefly in Korea.

Goals
Her goal is to empower women through narrative.

Inspirations
Empowering women inspires her to write.

Publications
Swimming in Hong Kong (Willow Springs/Eastern Washington University)