Shin, Ery

Biography

Ery Shin was born in Ames, Iowa in 1986, and raised in Manhattan for the first decade of her life, then Seoul for the second. She received a bachelor’s in English from Princeton University and a doctorate from the University of Oxford. The author of Gertrude Stein’s Surrealist Years, a study of Stein’s later experimental gestures and their philosophical implications within Hitler’s Europe, she is currently an assistant professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi. Spring on the Peninsula is her first novel.