Gish Jen

Gish Jen's short stories have been included in The Best American Short Stories five times, including in The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike. A fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she has been the recipient of a Lannan Literary Award and a five-year Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award, as well as NEA, Fulbright, Guggenheim, and Radcliffe fellowships. She delivered the William E. Massey lectures in the History of American Civilization at Harvard in 2012. In addition, she has published short work in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, and other publications. Her most recent book, her tenth, is a cross between the memoir and the novel entitled Bad Bad Girl (Knopf).