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After graduating from Vassar College, he studied folklore and shamanism as a Fulbright Scholar in Korea and dream research under a grant from the University of California. Fenkl holds an M.A. in creative writing from the University of California, Davis, where he was also a Ph.D candidate in cultural anthropology.
Fenkl was raised in Korea and (in his later years) Germany and the United States. He lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife, writer and artist Anne B. Dalton, and their daughter Isabella Myong-wol.
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