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. But she left her heart in San Francisco. And elsewhere. Her newest book, Self-Portrait with Ghost, is out from Mariner Books. She is writing a fake memoir, for which she received a 2021 Creative Capital Award.