AVA CHIN is the author of A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming (Penguin Press). A previous book, Eating Wildly, won the Les Dames d’Escoffier International M.F.K. Fisher Book Prize. Chin’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, and Saveur. A professor of creative nonfiction at the City University of New York, Chin has received grants and fellowships from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York Institute for the Humanities, and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.