Results tagged “runaway”

A 12-year-old Naperville boy who had gone missing, along with his family's SUV, was found this morning unharmed at O'Hare Airport. Earlier reports of the boy reported on the boy's tendency to sleepwalk but officials say that played no role in this incident and that the boy drove away under "his own free will." Police considered his disappearance a runaway situation. Police were able to find the SUV's tracks in the snow and follow them. Said Police Commander Dave Hoffman, "The tracks were all over the place. It was pretty apparent it was an inexperienced driver."

To say writer Nami Mun has led an interesting life would be a gross understatement. Mun was born in Seoul, South Korea and moved to the states with her family when she was young, growing up in the Bronx. A teen runaway, her jobs have included being a bartender, a photojournalist, a street vendor, an Avon Lady, and a criminal investigator. After getting her bachelors from UC Berkeley, she got her MFA form the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award for fiction and the Farrar Prize for Drama (she's also won a Pushcart Prize and earned several fellowships). Her work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Tin House, and the Evergreen Review.