In 2018, she published her nationally bestselling[2] debut novel The Incendiaries with Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

[3] Kwon was born in Seoul, South Korea, and moved to Los Angeles, California, with her family when she was three years old.

[4] She was raised in a Christian household but at the age of 17 experienced a crisis of faith and stopped believing in God.

[28] In addition, the book has been nominated for the American Library Association Carnegie Medal[29] and Aspen Prize.

[33] Kwon lives in San Francisco, California, and "the long-term plan is to be here until climate change chases us out".