Jay Caspian Kang

Jay Caspian Kang is an American writer and editor. He currently works as a correspondent on Vice News Tonight and as a writer-at-large at the New York Times Magazine. His debut novel, The Dead Do Not Improve was released by Hogarth/Random House in the Summer of 2012.

Kang was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up in Boston and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He graduated from Bowdoin College. He received his Masters of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University.

Kang's debut novel, The Dead Do Not Improve was released in 2012 by Hogarth/Random House. The book was summarized by the Kirkus Book Reviews as a "Pynchon-esque menagerie of California surfers, cops, thugs and dot-com workers [that] converge in a comic anti-noir." The book revolves around a disgruntled MFA graduate named Philip Kim, who discovers that his elderly neighbor has been murdered, and who soon becomes the unlikely protagonist of a quickly unfolding mystery. Kang mentioned that he wanted to write the book about Korean American male anger and reflect on how the Virginia Tech shooter, Seung-Hui Cho, was also Korean.

Kang joined Vice in June 2016 as civil rights correspondent, appearing on HBO's "Vice News Tonight". He is also a writer-at-large for The New York Times Magazine.

Kang currently lives in New York.

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