Meng Jin (born 1989) is an American novelist.
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]
Date | Work | Magazine | Ref |
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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] |