Karis Haewon Ryu | 류혜원 is a doctoral student and fiction writer based in New Haven, CT. She is currently pursuing her PhD in the Department of Religious Studies with a Graduate Certificate in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University. Her academic work explores processes of worldbuilding in popular culture, particularly through racial fantasy. She is working on her first novel with the support of the McCormack Writing Center (formerly the Tin House Workshop) and the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing.

Karis holds an M.A. in Religion from Yale Divinity School and an A.B. in History and East Asian Studies from Brown University. You can find her co-organizing the Yale Creative Writing Working Group and/or attending film screenings, book clubs, and musical theatre masterclasses in and beyond New Haven.

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