Meng Jin

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Meng Jin
Born1989 (age 35–36)
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAmerican
Education Harvard University (BA)
Hunter College (MFA)

Meng Jin (born 1989) is an American novelist.

Life

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 at Fordham University and a Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University; [3] and has also received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation.

Contents

Her writing has appeared in Baltimore Review , [4] Ploughshares , [5] The Arkansas International, [6] The Threepenny Review, [7] Vogue, [8] [9] 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, [10] [2] a program at University of East Anglia, for her work in "deepening — through literature — inter-cultural understanding between Asia and the West". [10]

Works

Novels and Short Collections

Short stories and editorials

DateWorkMagazineRef
January 2014"Ratios and Differences"Bound Off Short Story Podcast #96 [23]
Summer 2014"The Weeping Widow"Baltimore Review [4]
Summer/Autumn 2015"You Who Made It Happen"ZYMBOL #5 [24]
Winter 2015-16"Ghost"Ploughshares (Vol 41, No 4) [5]
Spring 2018"She and She and I"The Arkansas International [6]
Fall 2019"In the Event"The Threepenny Review (Fall 2019) [7]
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 [8]
April 10, 2020"Why Gua Sha Is the Original Form of At-Home Self-Care"Vogue [9]

References

  1. 1 2 "Meng Jin". english.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  2. 1 2 3 "Jin, Meng". ueawriters.uea.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  3. ↑ "Past Fellows | Center for Steinbeck Studies". www.sjsu.edu. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
  4. 1 2 "Meng Jin: The Weeping Widow". baltimorereview.org. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  5. 1 2 "Meng Jin | Ploughshares". Ploughshares. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  6. 1 2 "Meng Jin". The Arkansas International. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  7. 1 2 "In the Event – The Threepenny Review" . Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  8. 1 2 "Marilyn, My Mother and Me: Reckoning With the Myth of American Beauty". Vogue. 2020-01-13. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  9. 1 2 "Why Gua Sha Is the Original Form of At-Home Self-Care". Vogue. 2020-04-10. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  10. 1 2 "David TK Wong Fellowship - School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing - About". uea.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  11. ↑ Iglesias, Gabino (2020-01-18). "'Little Gods' Reminds Us Some Questions Are Better Left Unasked". NPR. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
  12. ↑ Smith, Wendy. "Meng Jin's 'Little Gods' is an ambitious, formally complex debut". The Washington Post.
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ LITTLE GODS.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  15. ↑ Blumberg-Kason, Susan (2020-02-02). "'Little Gods' by Meng Jin". asianreviewofbooks.com. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
  16. ↑ "Little Gods by Meng Jin". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
  17. ↑ Garrett, Yvonne C. (2022-07-12). "Mieko Kawakami & Meng Jin". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
  18. ↑ 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.
  19. ↑ "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.
  20. ↑ Wang, Weike (2022-09-21). "Consumerism and Catastrophe". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-11-03.
  21. ↑ "Meng Jin's 'Self-Portrait with Ghost' explores dignity, joy and the present through short stories". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
  22. ↑ "My Ex Cheated, But I Outlived Him". Electric Literature. 2022-06-29. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
  23. ↑ Bound Off Short Story Podcast, Issue 96, January 2014 , retrieved 2023-02-21
  24. ↑ "ZYMBOL: Issue 5 Editor Letter" (PDF).
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