Krys Lee

Krys Lee

John Guare Writers Fund Rome Prize, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman
September 8, 2014–July 31, 2015
Profession
Fiction Writer, Seoul, South Korea
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Literature, Underwood International College, Yonsei University
Project title
Unnamed Novel
Project description

The novel I will work in Rome is set in a future that is actually the present. Overpopulation has forced governments to extreme measures on their citizens and resulted in a parallel green initiative to cope with the scarcity of space. Those who do not make the cut are cast out and begin in chaos. They begin coursing brave new worlds in a geography that is gothic and harsh, and learn new survival skills in this new world. The novel will take readers to a world where ordinary people struggle, organizations and institutions flourish, and myth becomes the most viable way of living.