Bio

I am a writer hailing from Fujian, Utah, and Kansas. I wrote the novel Severance and the story collection Bliss Montage, both published by FSG. I live in Chicago with my family.

Severance was awarded the Kirkus Prize, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award. Bliss Montage garnered the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Story Prize. Other honors include the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, the Whiting Award, and an NEA Fellowship. My fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Granta, among others, and has been translated into nine languages.

I have taught creative writing and English at Cornell University and at the University of Chicago, where I previously served as an Assistant Professor of Practice.