About Me

I used to blog under my real name–I’m talking surname, too. For many, many years! But I decided to go underground–things got too complicated and scary.

So I moved my internet home. I feel like I’m in the Witness Protection Program. I don’t know how to go about in anonymity on the web. But here I am, writing under the pseudonym of “Jade Park.” I’m Korean. I’m American. I’m female. I’m a writer. That’s all I’ll say for now.

But this is a new step–a new dynamic! Thanks for dropping by. Maybe you’ll stay and get to know me (and even like the place!) even though I don’t have a face anymore.

Tidbits…

• After years of saying, “I’d be a writer but–” I enrolled in an MFA program in Fall 2004.
• I got published. I went to a writing colony.
• On December 31st, 2006…I had a stroke. I withdrew from school for a semester. I’m recovering from it, waiting to be able to write fiction again–and using this space to write and share what I can about my experiences.
• On June 22, 2006…The doctors closed a hole in my heart that was both discovered and diagnosed to be the cause of my stroke and multiple TIAs (Trans-Ischemic Attacks, or “mini strokes” to you), thus closing the stroke chapter of my life.
• I re-enrolled in my MFA program in Fall 2007 to complete my last semester.
• In winter of 2007-2008, I turned in my thesis, finished my last workshop, and in the most anticlimactic of styles…graduated from my MFA program.
• Spring 2008…Went back to my old career, took a fulltime job.  Still writing, figuring out how my new brain works.