Meng Jin

Meng Jin is a Chinese-American author who wrote the novel, Little Gods. She was born in Shanghai, China in May of 1989, but she later moved to America. She currently lives in San Francisco. Meng is a Kundiman Fellow, the Kundiman is a national organization dedicated to the creation and cultivation of Asian American creative writing. Jin is also a graduate of the Hunter College MFA. Jin grew up in America so a lot of the Chinese history she learned secondhand through American textbooks. She found that these stories combined with the stories that her family told her didn’t quite match up. Part of this was just the tone of history textbooks, but it was also becuase the stories were much more personal to her grandmother and others. This inspired her novel which lead to the characters living through history, but the center of the story focuses mostly on the character’s desires, hopes, and dreams. She currenly lives and writes in San Francisco where she co-habitates with her partner, Neel, and her puppy, Tofu. Get notified when Meng Jin releases a new book at BookNotification.com.