Nora Okja Keller (born 22 December 1966, in Seoul, South Korea) is a Korean American author.
Her 1997 breakthrough work of fiction, Comfort Woman, and her second book (2002), Fox Girl, focus on multigenerational trauma resulting from Korean women's experiences as sex slaves, euphemistically called comfort women, for Japanese and American troops during World War II and the ongoing Korean War.
[8] Her daughter, Tae Keller, received the 2021 Newbery Medal from the American Library Association for her young adult book When You Trap a Tiger.
The syllabus included Maxine Hong Kingston, Jade Snow Wong, and Joy Kogawa.
"[7] Keller’s novels explore her own complex ethnic identity in the context of Hawaii’s multi-ethnic society and her relationship with her mother (upon whom "some details"[7] of characters in her fiction are based).