"There's nothing as universal as the weekend and ones modest hopes for it."
~ Ed Park, Personal Days
Same Bed Different Dreams by 
Personal Days by 
An Oral History of Atlantis by 
Photo Credit: Sylvia Plachy
Ed Park On Focusing on the Longer Journey- The Creative Independent (2025)
Dream States: A Conversation with Ed Park- ZYZZYVA (2024)
Processing: How Ed Park Wrote Same Bed Different Dreams- Counter Craft (2023)
Ed Park-First Person Plural Reading Series- First Person Plural Harlem
A Good Story to Tell- The New York Review (2021)
Ed Park is the author of the novels Same Bed Different Dreams (2023), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Personal Days (2008), a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Harper’s, The Atlantic, Bookforum, McSweeney’s, and many other publications. He is a founding editor of The Believer and the former literary editor of The Village Voice, and has worked in newspapers and book publishing.
Born in Buffalo, Ed lives in Manhattan with his family. He currently teaches writing at Princeton University. His debut story collection, An Oral History of Atlantis, is forthcoming in 2025.
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