Cover Photo: Illustration by Sirin Thada for Catapult
Illustration by Sirin Thada for Catapult

How to Eat Your Own Heart

Your knife should already be sharpened.

Gina Chung is a Korean American writer from New Jersey based in Brooklyn, New York. She is the communications manager at PEN America and an MFA candidate in fiction at The New School. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, F(r)iction, Fugue, Wigleaf, Waxwing, Split Lip Magazine, Jellyfish Review, the VIDA Review, and LIT Magazine. Find her at gina-chung.com.