Meng Jin

Meng Jin (born 1989) is an American novelist.

Life

Jin was born in Shanghai and raised in China and the U.S.

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] While at UEA, she worked on her first novel Little Gods.

Little Gods was published in 2020 in United States and in 2021 in the UK. It received acclaim from literary critics.

Works

Novels and Short Collections

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