Kirstin Chen
Biography
Kirstin Chen
Kirstin Chen is the award-winning, bestselling author of three novels. Her latest, COUNTERFEIT, has been recommended by Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Time, Oprah Daily, Haper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Parade and more. Television rights have been optioned by Sony Pictures. Her previous two novels are BURY WHAT WE CANNOT TAKE and SOY SAUCE FOR BEGINNERS.
She has received fellowships and awards from the Steinbeck Fellows Program, Sewanee, Hedgebrook, Djerassi, the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, the Toji Cultural Foundation, and the National Arts Council of Singapore. Her writing has appeared in The Cut, Real Simple, Literary Hub, Writer’s Digest, Zyzzyva and the Best New Singaporean Short Stories. She holds an MFA from Emerson College and a BA from Stanford University.
Born and raised in Singapore, she lives in San Francisco. She teaches creative writing at the University of San Francisco and in Ashland University’s Low-Residency MFA Program.
Kirstin Chen