Author Pages | Jane Jeong Trenka
Biography
Jane Jeong Trenka was born in Seoul, Korea. She and her sister were adopted into
a white family in rural northern Minnesota in 1972. She was reunited with her
birth family in 1995. Jane is the author of The Language of Blood: A Memoir,
published by Borealis Books, as well as the forthcoming Fugitive Visions,
to be published by Graywolf Press in Spring 2007. She has received numerous awards
for her writing, including selection for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New
Writers program.
Jane Jeong Trenka has received fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Loft Literary Center, the Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, and SASE: the Write Place. Cited by the City Pages as “Best Book by a Local Author” and by the Minnesota Humanities Commission for a “New Voice” commendation, The Language of Blood received the Minnesota Book Award for Autobiography/Memoir and was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection.
