Meng Jin
Meng Jin | |
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| Born | 1989 (age 34–35) |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) Hunter College (MFA) |
Meng Jin (born 1989) is an American novelist.
Life[edit]
She graduated with a BA from Harvard University in 2011, and from Hunter College's MFA program in 2015.[1] While at Hunter, she was a Hertog Fellow.[2] Continuing to teach literature and creative writing at Hunter,[2] Jin also guest lectures at Harvard.[1] 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,[3] Ploughshares,[4] The Arkansas International,[5] The Threepenny Review,[6] Vogue,[7][8] Bare Life Review, and The Masters Review; 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,[9][2] a program at University of East Anglia, for her work in "deepening — through literature — inter-cultural understanding between Asia and the West".[9]
Works[edit]
Novels and Short Collections[edit]
- Little Gods: A Novel (2020) [10][11][12][13][14][15]
- Self-Portrait With Ghost (2022) [16][17][18][19][20][21]
Short stories and editorials[edit]
| Date | Work | Magazine | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 2014 | "Ratios and Differences" | Bound Off Short Story Podcast #96 | [22] |
| Summer 2014 | "The Weeping Widow" | Baltimore Review | [3] |
| Summer/Autumn 2015 | "You Who Made It Happen" | ZYMBOL #5 | [23] |
| Winter 2015-16 | "Ghost" | Ploughshares (Vol 41, No 4) | [4] |
| Spring 2018 | "She and She and I" | The Arkansas International | [5] |
| Fall 2019 | "In the Event" | The Threepenny Review (Fall 2019) | [6] |
| The Best American Short Stories 2020 (2020) | |||
| Pushcart Prize XLV: Best of the Small Press (2021) | |||
| January 13, 2020 | "Marilyn, My Mother and Me" | Vogue | [7] |
| April 10, 2020 | "Why Gua Sha Is the Original Form of At-Home Self-Care" | Vogue | [8] |
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Meng Jin". english.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ a b c "Jin, Meng". ueawriters.uea.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ a b "Meng Jin: The Weeping Widow". baltimorereview.org. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ a b "Meng Jin | Ploughshares". Ploughshares. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ a b "Meng Jin". The Arkansas International. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ a b "In the Event – The Threepenny Review". Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ a b "Marilyn, My Mother and Me: Reckoning With the Myth of American Beauty". Vogue. 2020-01-13. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ a b "Why Gua Sha Is the Original Form of At-Home Self-Care". Vogue. 2020-04-10. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ a b "David TK Wong Fellowship - School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing - About". uea.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ Iglesias, Gabino (2020-01-18). "'Little Gods' Reminds Us Some Questions Are Better Left Unasked". NPR. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
- ^ Smith, Wendy. "Meng Jin's 'Little Gods' is an ambitious, formally complex debut". The Washington Post.
- ^ Jen, Gish (2020-01-14). "For a Successful Chinese Woman, Can Motherhood Be Her Undoing?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
- ^ LITTLE GODS.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ Blumberg-Kason, Susan (2020-02-02). "'Little Gods' by Meng Jin". asianreviewofbooks.com. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
- ^ "Little Gods by Meng Jin". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
- ^ Garrett, Yvonne C. (2022-07-12). "Mieko Kawakami & Meng Jin". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
- ^ Burling, Alexis (June 27, 2022). "Review: Knockout collection of stories set in China and the U.S. grapples with chaos of our time". Datebook | San Francisco Arts & Entertainment Guide. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
- ^ "Kept from her birthplace by Covid-19, Chinese writer recreates it on the page". South China Morning Post. 2022-07-31. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
- ^ Wang, Weike (2022-09-21). "Consumerism and Catastrophe". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
- ^ "Meng Jin's 'Self-Portrait with Ghost' explores dignity, joy and the present through short stories". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
- ^ "My Ex Cheated, But I Outlived Him". Electric Literature. 2022-06-29. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
- ^ Bound Off Short Story Podcast, Issue 96, January 2014, retrieved 2023-02-21
- ^ "ZYMBOL: Issue 5 Editor Letter" (PDF).
External links[edit]
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