Jung Yun has lived in Western Massachusetts since 2002. She is a graduate of the MFA Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and her work has appeared in Tin House (the “Emerging Voices” issue) The Best of Tin House: Stories, edited by Dorothy Allison; and The Massachusetts Review. Her first novel, Shelter, debuts this week (Picador).
Jung Yun
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Writing on Public Books
Alone on the Montague Plains
This is the latest installment of Public Streets, a biweekly urban observations series curated by Ellis Avery. Drive a few miles above the legal speed limit on Lake Pleasant Road, and you’re likely to miss the Montague Plains, unaware that the area is more than just passing scenery on the connector road between the villages […]










