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# Yoojin Grace Wuertz

Author Website

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- [Home](https://yoojingracewuertz.com/) - Yoojin Grace Wuertz is the author of EVERYTHING BELONGS TO US, which was selected as a New York Times Editors’ Choice, longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and included on Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction of 2017. She is the author of two picture books, including HABBI’S TREASURES, forthcoming (2026) from RISE x Penguin Workshop. Her debut young adult novel is forthcoming (2027) from Roaring Brook Press (Macmillan).
- [Events](https://yoojingracewuertz.com/news-events/) - 2026 Events for HABBI'S TREASURES September 12, 11am: Barnes & Noble Paramus, NJ September 13, 2pm: Princeton Public Library (NJ) September 20, 11:30am: Yu & Me Books (NYC) September 26, 11am: Once Upon a Time bookstore (Los Angeles) October 3, 11am-3pm: Glen Rock Children’s Book Festival (NJ) October 10, 10:30am-4pm: Morristown Festival of Books
- [Contact](https://yoojingracewuertz.com/contact/) - I'd love to hear from you! Please email me here or at yoojingracewuertz at gmail dot com. Sign up for my newsletter: Agents For children's lit: Janine Kamouh William Morris Endeavor 11 Madison Avenue New York, New York 10010 For adult lit: Suzanne Gluck William Morris Endeavor 11 Madison Avenue New York, New York 10010
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- [Home old](https://yoojingracewuertz.com/home/) - Everything Belongs to Us by Yoojin Grace Wuertz. Engrossing…Wuertz is an important new voice in American fiction. -KIRKUS (starred review)
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- [School Visits](https://yoojingracewuertz.com/school-visits/) - Coming soon
- [Bio](https://yoojingracewuertz.com/bio-yoojin-grace-wuertz/) - Yoojin Grace Wuertz is the author of EVERYTHING BELONGS TO US, which was selected as a New York Times Editors’ Choice, longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and included on Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction of 2017. She is the author of two picture books, HABBI’S TREASURES (September 2026) and SOMI’S STAR DAY
- [Writing + Media](https://yoojingracewuertz.com/other-writing/) - ESSAYS Mother Tongue: For a bilingual new mother, parenting becomes an experiment in identity—both her child's and her own. (Guernica) Failure and Patience: Lessons from the Garden for Writers (Literary Hub) REVIEWS ArtReview: ‘Hunger’ by Choi Jin-young: Love, Cannibalism and Contemporary Korea (July 2025) Podcast with The Times Literary Supplement: From Seoul to Stockholm (For cover
- [Home 2](https://yoojingracewuertz.com/new2/) - Yoojin Grace Wuertz is the author of EVERYTHING BELONGS TO US, which was selected as a New York Times Editors’ Choice, longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and included on Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction of 2017. She is the author of two picture books, including HABBI’S TREASURES, forthcoming (2026) from RISE x Penguin Workshop. Her debut young adult novel is forthcoming (2027) from Roaring Brook Press (Macmillan).
- [Habbi's Treasures](https://yoojingracewuertz.com/habbis-treasures/) - Available Sep 08, 2026 Pre-Order Habbi's Treasures from: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Books A Million | Bookshop.org | Hudson Booksellers | Powell's A heartfelt ode to family, memory, and the stories that live in the everyday things we hold dear. During a game of hide-and-seek at his grandfather’s house, Caleb finds something unexpected—a
- [Everything Belongs to Us](https://yoojingracewuertz.com/book/) - Everything Belongs to Us by Yoojin Grace Wuertz. Two young women of vastly different means each struggle to find her own way during the darkest hours of South Korea’s “economic miracle” in a striking debut novel for readers of Anthony Marra and Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie.
- [Books](https://yoojingracewuertz.com/books/)
- [For Readers](https://yoojingracewuertz.com/for-readers/) - EVERYTHING BELONGS TO US is a work of fiction inspired by stories Grace heard from her parents about their college years. Grace's parents met as freshmen while her father was at Seoul National University and her mother was at Ewha Woman's University. Her father's memories of the political climate during these years sparked Grace's initial ideas for the

## Testimonials

- [Booklist](https://yoojingracewuertz.com/testimonials/kirkus-2/) - “An absorbing debut destined for major lists and nominations.”
- [Susan Choi](https://yoojingracewuertz.com/testimonials/susan-choi/) - "A Middlemarch for modern South Korea."
- [Kirkus](https://yoojingracewuertz.com/testimonials/kirkus/) - "ENGROSSING. WUERTZ IS AN IMPORTANT NEW VOICE IN AMERICAN FICTION."
- [The New York Times Book Review](https://yoojingracewuertz.com/testimonials/the-new-york-times-book-review/) - "A “Gatsby”-esque takedown of 1970s South Korea"