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Angela Mi Young Hur

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Angela Mi Young Hur

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I was born in Los Angeles to Korean immigrant parents. Graduated from Andover, Harvard (BA), Notre Dame (MFA). Despite what it seems, FOLKLORN is my true literary / spiritual debut. Forthcoming April 2021, from Erewhon.

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Folklorn

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“To reject is easy; to be abandoned, terrifying.”
Angela Mi Young Hur, Folklorn

“Well, it’s not only Western countries who believe an orphan is lucky to grow up there. The fairy tale is used to console desperate birth mothers, but also serves to assuage the guilt of others—relatives who persuade the mother that this is best for her and her future, for the other children she already struggles to feed. It’s a story wielded by those who shape policy, who handle transactions with foreign agencies. It’s a fantasy for those not even involved—the ballad of the Korean orphan growing up in the exotic, romantic West—never mind the loss of identity, language, or the right to exist in a particular place. It is simply enough that the fairy tale happily ends with the baby delivered into the arms of a deserving white couple. But this is only the end to their story of childlessness. It’s the beginning of another for the one who’ll be a visible foreigner within his new family and throughout his youth.”
Angela Mi Young Hur, Folklorn

“Nothing is fresh, not the seas we cross to escape from one life to another. Most of Earth and its people are made of water, so some of me now, as I sweat and exhale, is shape-shifting.”
Angela Mi Young Hur, Folklorn

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