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Birth—N/A
Where—Singapore, Singapore
Education—B.A., Stanford University; M.F.A., Emerson College
Currently—San Francisco, CA


Kristin Chen is the author of Soy Sauce for Beginners, featured in USA Today’s "New Voices”, an Oprah Magazine book pick, and a Glamour book club pick.

A former Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing, she holds an MFA from Emerson College and a BA from Stanford University. She has received awards from the Sewanee and Napa Valley writers’ conferences. Her short stories have appeared in Zyzzyva, Hobart, Pank, and others, and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best New American Voices.

Born and raised in Singapore, she currently lives in San Francisco, where she’s at work on her second novel, set on a tiny island off the coast of southern China in 1958. (From .)