Yongsoo Park is a Korean American writer who has authored the novels Boy Genius () and Las Cucarachas (), the essay collection The Art of Eating Bitter: A Hausfrau Dad's Journey with Kids (), and the memoir Rated R Boy: Growing Up Korean in 1980s Queens ().
Kathleen Alcala, while being interviewed about magical realism for Margin, described Boy Genius as being among "the most subversive magical realism".