Jolene Brink and Nik Chang Hoon

A reading and conversation with two CSB/SJU 2009 alumni

Nik Chang Hoon 임창훈 (he/him) is a Korean transracial adoptee, memoirist and poet based in Minneapolis. His creative nonfiction won the 2024 Annie Dillard Prize (Bellingham Review) and was named a finalist for The Iowa Review Award in nonfiction. His poetry has appeared in The Plentitudes (Winter 2025) and the Blue Earth Review (2024 Minnesota BIPOC Emerging Writer Award Runner-Up), and was named a 2024 MAYDAY Micro-chapbook Contest finalist. His most recent essays are forthcoming in The Kenyon Review and The Texas Review, respectively.

Jolene Brink was born and raised in northern Minnesota. She received the Merriam-Frontier Award for her chapbook, Peregrine, and the Walt McDonald First-Book Series in Poetry award for her poetry collection, Overburden. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Orion, New England Review, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. She works for the University of Minnesota and lives with her family in a historic blue house near the St. Croix River.

This event is free and open to the public.