Suki Kim is the author of the award-winning novel The Interpreter and the recipient of Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Open Society fellowships. She has been traveling to North Korea as a journalist since 2002, and her essays and articles have appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, y el New York Review of Books. Her latest book is Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite (Crown), a haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea’s ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il’s reign at the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), a walled compound where portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il look on impassively from the walls of every room. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly wrote that this is an “…extraordinary and troubling portrait of life under severe repression… [Kim’s] account is both perplexing and deeply stirring.”