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About
Novelist and screenwriter best known as a writer and executive producer for the FX series Snowfall. He also worked on series like Justified and Awake. He has written short stories and novels including The Lockpicker and Triplines. He wrote a noir trilogy which includes Over the Shoulder, Underkill, and Fade to Clear.
Before Fame
He studied Philosophy at Dartmouth College and Harvard University. He interned with the Peace Corps in Jamaica.
Trivia
His first novel, The Fruit 'N Food, won the Black Heron Press Award for Social Fiction. His next novel, Dispatches from the Cold, won a San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldie Award for Literature.
Family Life
He has Korean heritage.
Associated With
He played a bartender in a 2014 episode of Justified starring Timothy Olyphant.