Chaney Kwak is a Korean-American writer whose first book, The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship, was published 2021 and garnered praise from The Washington Post, Afar, and many other publications.
Chaney Kwak has written for publications such as The New York Times, Condé Nast Traveler, Food & Wine, Travel & Leisure, and a number of National Geographic anthologies. His fiction has appeared in Zyzzyva, Catamaran Literary Review, Gertrude, and other literary journals, earning a special mention from the Pushcart Prize.
He teaches nonfiction writing at the Stanford Continuing Studies program.
