Meng Jin

Meng Jin
Born1989 (age 34–35)
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAmerican
EducationHarvard 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.

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

Date Work Magazine Ref
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. ^ a b "Meng Jin". english.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  2. ^ a b c "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. ^ a b "Meng Jin: The Weeping Widow". baltimorereview.org. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  5. ^ a b "Meng Jin | Ploughshares". Ploughshares. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  6. ^ a b "Meng Jin". The Arkansas International. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  7. ^ a b "In the Event – The Threepenny Review". Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  8. ^ a b "Marilyn, My Mother and Me: Reckoning With the Myth of American Beauty". Vogue. 2020-01-13. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  9. ^ a b "Why Gua Sha Is the Original Form of At-Home Self-Care". Vogue. 2020-04-10. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  10. ^ a b "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).