Meng Jin (born 1989) is an American novelist.
Life
Jin was born in
Shanghai and raised in China and the U.S.
She graduated with a BA from
Harvard University in 2011, and from
Hunter College
Hunter College is a public university in New York City. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools. It also admi ...
's MFA program in 2015.
While at Hunter, she was a Hertog Fellow.
Continuing to teach literature and creative writing at Hunter,
Jin also guest lectures at Harvard.
She is a
Kundiman Fellow, and has also received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies.
Her writing has appeared in ''
Baltimore Review
''Baltimore Review'' is an American literary magazine founded in 1996.Getting the Word Out? Baltimore City Paper, July 4, 2001 It publishes short stories, poetry, creative nonfiction, interviews, and items of interest to those interested in crea ...
'',
''
Ploughshares'',
''The Arkansas International'',
''
The Threepenny Review,''
''
Vogue,''
''Bare Life Review'', and ''
The Masters Review
''The Masters Review'' is an American literary magazine and book publisher based in Portland, Oregon. Established in 2011 by founding editor Kim Winternheimer, the publication serves a platform for publishing and discovering new and emerging w ...
''; as well as anthologies such as ''
The Best American Short Stories'' and ''
Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses''.
She became the 2016-17 David T. K. Wong Fellow,
a program at
University of East Anglia, for her work in "deepening — through literature — inter-cultural understanding between Asia and the West".
While at UEA, she worked on her first novel ''Little Gods''.
''Little Gods'' was published in 2020 in United States and in 2021 in the UK. It received acclaim from literary critics.
Works
Novels and Short Collections
* ''Little Gods: A Novel'' (2020)
* ''Self-Portrait With Ghost'' (2022)
Short stories and editorials
References
External links
Powell's Interview: Meng Jin, Author of 'Little Gods'
1989 births
Living people
21st-century American novelists
Harvard College alumni
Hunter College alumni
Writers from Shanghai
American women novelists
21st-century American short story writers
American women short story writers
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