Draft:Christina Chiu

Christina Chiu is a prize-winning Chinese-American author, educator, and designer. She is the winner of the [https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/search-results-grid/?series=une184-the-james-alan-mcpherson-prize-for-the-novel James Alan McPherson Award] for her novel [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53051811-beauty Beauty], which was also a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020. She is also the author of a collection of linked stories, Troublemaker and Other Saints. Troublemaker was a nominee for a BOMC Stephen Crane First Fiction Award and winner of the Asian American Literary Award. She received her MFA from Columbia University. Chiu lives in New York City. She has two children.https://www.christinachiu.com

Chiu’s stories appear in [https://tinhouse.com Tin House], [https://www.newguardreview.com The New Guard], [https://www.kwelijournal.org Kweli Journal], Washington Square Review, [https://www.schoolcraft.edu/macguffin/ The MacGuffin], [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/291849/charlie-chan-is-dead-2-by-edited-with-an-introduction-by-jessica-hagedorn/ Charlie Chan is Dead 2], and [https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781948235785 Down by the River]. She has won literary prizes from Playboy Magazine and The APA Journal. Her story “Waves” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Chiu’s essays appear in Electric Literature, [https://nexttribe.com/magazine/ Next Tribe], Publisher’s Weekly, and Poets & Writers.

Chiu curates and hosts [https://penparentis.org The Pen Parentis Literary Salon] and [https://newyorkwritersworkshop.weebly.com New York Writer’s Workshop]’s Let’s Talk Books. She is a founding member of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Chiu was Associate Editor at [https://tinhouse.com Tin House] and editor of the New Voices Section.

Chiu grew up in Scarsdale, New York and attended Edgemont Junior – Senior High School, graduating in 1987. Portions of her short story collection, Troublemaker and Other Saints reflect her observations of Edgemont's atmosphere. She then attended Bates College {{cite web | URL = https://www.bates.edu/news/2002/02/12/christina-chiu-fiction/ | title=Fiction writer Christina Chiu`91 to read from work}} and earned her MFA at Columbia University.

Chiu's first book, Troublemaker and Other Saints, is a short story collection published in 2001 by Putnam Press.{{cite web | url=https://www.penguin.com/putnam/ | title=Putnam | date=23 June 2021 }} The book contains 11 linked stories about different members of a Chinese American community—including a matriarch, a granddaughter, and a young punk—who all collide and come together in miraculous ways. {{cite web | url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780399147159 | title=TROUBLEMAKER AND OTHER SAINTS by Christina Chiu }}

Chiu's second book, Beauty, was published in 2020 by Santa Fe Writers Project. The book follows Amy Wong, an up-and-coming fashion designer. Throughout the novel, Amy faces rival fashion designers and prejudice while also struggling with marriage and motherhood. Beauty was the grand prize winner of the [https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/search-results-grid/?series=une184-the-james-alan-mcpherson-prize-for-the-novel James Alan McPherson Award].{{cite book | url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53051811-beauty | isbn=978-1-7337777-5-9 | title=Beauty | date=2020 | publisher=2040 Books, an imprint of Santa Fe Writers Project }}