Meng Jin Explained
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, 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,[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] a program at University of East Anglia, for her work in "deepening — through literature — inter-cultural understanding between Asia and the West".
Works
Novels and Short Collections
Short stories and editorials
| Date | Work | Magazine | Ref |
|---|
| January 2014 | "Ratios and Differences" | Bound Off Short Story Podcast #96 | |
| Summer 2014 | "" | Baltimore Review | |
| Summer/Autumn 2015 | "You Who Made It Happen" | ZYMBOL #5 | [22] |
| Winter 2015-16 | "" | Ploughshares (Vol 41, No 4) | |
| Spring 2018 | "" | The Arkansas International | |
| Fall 2019 | "" | The Threepenny Review (Fall 2019) | |
| The Best American Short Stories 2020 (2020) | |
| Pushcart Prize XLV: Best of the Small Press (2021) | |
| January 13, 2020 | "" | Vogue | |
| April 10, 2020 | "" | Vogue | | |
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Meng Jin . 2023-02-21 . english.fas.harvard.edu . en.
- Web site: Jin, Meng . 2023-02-21 . ueawriters.uea.ac.uk.
- Web site: Meng Jin: The Weeping Widow . 2023-02-21 . baltimorereview.org . en.
- Web site: Meng Jin Ploughshares . 2023-02-21 . Ploughshares.
- Web site: Meng Jin . 2023-02-21 . The Arkansas International . en-US.
- Web site: In the Event – The Threepenny Review . 2023-02-21 . en-US.
- Web site: 2020-01-13 . Marilyn, My Mother and Me: Reckoning With the Myth of American Beauty . 2023-02-21 . Vogue . en-US.
- Web site: 2020-04-10 . Why Gua Sha Is the Original Form of At-Home Self-Care . 2023-02-21 . Vogue . en-US.
- Web site: David TK Wong Fellowship - School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing - About . 2023-02-21 . uea.ac.uk.
- News: Iglesias . Gabino . 2020-01-18 . 'Little Gods' Reminds Us Some Questions Are Better Left Unasked . en . NPR . 2022-11-03.
- News: Smith . Wendy . Meng Jin's 'Little Gods' is an ambitious, formally complex debut . The Washington Post.
- News: Jen . Gish . 2020-01-14 . For a Successful Chinese Woman, Can Motherhood Be Her Undoing? . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-11-03 . 0362-4331.
- Book: LITTLE GODS . Kirkus Reviews . en.
- Web site: Blumberg-Kason . Susan . 2020-02-02 . 'Little Gods' by Meng Jin . asianreviewofbooks.com . 2022-11-03 . en-US.
- Web site: Little Gods by Meng Jin . 2022-11-03 . Publishers Weekly.
- Web site: Garrett . Yvonne C. . 2022-07-12 . Mieko Kawakami & Meng Jin . 2022-11-03 . The Brooklyn Rail . en-US.
- Web site: June 27, 2022 . Alexis. Burling . Review: Knockout collection of stories set in China and the U.S. grapples with chaos of our time . 2022-11-03 . Datebook San Francisco Arts & Entertainment Guide . en-US.
- Web site: 2022-07-31 . Kept from her birthplace by Covid-19, Chinese writer recreates it on the page . 2022-11-03 . South China Morning Post . en.
- News: Wang . Weike . 2022-09-21 . Consumerism and Catastrophe . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-11-03 . 0362-4331.
- Web site: Meng Jin's 'Self-Portrait with Ghost' explores dignity, joy and the present through short stories . 2022-11-03 . The Boston Globe . en-US.
- Web site: 2022-06-29 . My Ex Cheated, But I Outlived Him . 2022-11-03 . Electric Literature . en-US.
- Web site: ZYMBOL: Issue 5 Editor Letter .
