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Meng Jin
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Meng Jin

Meng Jin Biography

Meng Jin is the author of the novel Little Gods. She is a Kundiman fellow, a David TK Wong fellow, a Steinbeck fellow, and indebted to many institutions, granting bodies, and kind humans for their support. Her writing has appeared in some journals and magazines, and the Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize anthologies. She currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is a visiting lecturer in creative writing at Harvard University. Her second book, Self-Portrait with Ghost, was released by Mariner Books in 2022. She is writing a fake memoir, for which she received a 2021 Creative Capital Award.

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