Catapult asked Nicole Chung:

When did you realize you wanted to become a writer?

Nicole Chung In second grade we were all given an assignment to write a fairy tale—I remember cramming double the sentences on that sheet of elementary-school super-wide-lined paper, writing above the dashed line *and* below so I could fit a longer story. My teacher read it and told me she thought I could be a writer. I didn't quite believe it was possible for me (and wouldn't for about twenty more years—partly a function of not being able to find or read many Asian or Korean American authors when I was growing up), but from that year onward, I knew it was something I wanted.

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