Jennifer Hope Choi is a senior editor for Afar’s print magazine, with more than 15 years in literary and media publishing. She is the recipient of the 2020–2022 Tulsa Artist Fellowship, the Carson McCullers Center’s Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellowship, the BuzzFeed Emerging Writer Fellowship, and the AHL Foundation’s inaugural Wolhee Choe Art Writers Grant. Her writing has appeared in many places, including The New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, Guernica, Lucky Peach, Best American Travel Writing, A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of Color on the New American South, and Bon Appétit, where she worked as a senior editor and earned two National Magazine Award nominations.
Choi is the author of The Wanderer’s Curse (W. W. Norton & Co., 2025), named one of the most anticipated books of the year by Condé Nast Traveler, Garden & Gun, and featured in The New Yorker. In 2026, The Wanderer’s Curse received the Asian Pacific American Libraries Association Honor Award Winner in Nonfiction.
A frequent guest lecturer, she has spoken at and taught for academic institutions such as the University of Oklahoma, Columbia University, Columbus State University, the University of Minnesota, and Hub City about artmaking, nonfiction storytelling, and the craft of writing.
