Author and editor Ed Park has been named as the recipient of the 2025 Deborah Pease Prize from A Public Space. The prize, named for one of A Public Space's founders, honors a person who has "advanced literature and the arts." The prize will be presented to Park on October 20 in New York City.
Park is the author of the novels Same Bed Different Dreams, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Personal Days, and the story collection An Oral History of Atlantis. His essays have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Review of Books, and Bookforum. He was an editor at the Village Voice in the 1990s and one of the founding editors of the Believer in the 2000s. He has also worked as an editor at the Poetry Foundation, Penguin, and Amazon.
A Public Space board member Yiyun Li said, "Ed Park is one of the most innovative and nimble-minded fiction writers working today. His novels and stories are sharp, playful, and imaginative; full of unexpected turns and astute observations of the absurdities of both historical events and contemporary life. He is also one of the most generous and supportive figures in publishing, as a writer, a reader, an editor, and a critic. The world is lucky to have Ed, and we are lucky to have him among us."