Meng Jin

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]

Novels and Short Collections

• Little Gods: A Novel (2020)^{[11][12][13][14][15][16]}
• Self-Portrait With Ghost (2022)^{[17][18][19][20][21][22]}

Short stories and editorials

More information Date, Work ...

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]

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