Seo-Young Chu

Seo-Young Chu’s publications include A Refuge for Jae-in Doe and Other Fugues (punctum books, 2026), “I, Discomfort Woman: A Fugue in F Minor” (The Margins, Asian American Writers’ Workshop), “Free Indirect Suicide: An Unfinished Fugue In H Minor” (The Rumpus), Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation (Harvard UP), and “I, Stereotype: Detained in the Uncanny Valley” (Techno-Orientalism, Rutgers UP). Her work has been nominated for “Best of the Net” three times, listed among “Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction” in The Best American Essays, and anthologized in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Best American Experimental Writing, Sense of Wonder, and Advanced Creative Nonfiction. She teaches in the English Department at Queens College, CUNY.