Author Pages | Sun Yung Shin
Biography
Sun Yung Shin was born in Seoul, Korea and was adopted at thirteen months old
by a Polish-Irish-German Catholic American family in the Chicago area. Sun Yung
is a poet, teacher, and freelance writer. Her bilingual children’s book,
Cooper’s Lesson (published by Children’s Book Press), is
illustrated by Korean American artist Kim Cogan with Korean translations by Min
Paek, author of Aekyung’s Dream. She lives with her husband (who
is a domestic kept-in-the-family adoptee from Chicago), outdoor-sports journalist
Christopher Cross, and their two non-adopted children in Minneapolis.
