Yoon's grandfather was a North Korean refugee who resettled in South Korea, where he later founded an orphanage.
Henry Prize Stories collection,[12] and he is the recipient of a 5 Under 35 Award from the National Book Foundation.
[13] His novel Snow Hunters won the 2014 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award.
a part of the faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars, Yoon is now a Briggs-Copeland lecturer at Harvard University.
[16] Yoon lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife, Laura van den Berg.