Ava Chin
Ava Chin is the author of Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion & Homecoming (Penguin Press), Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love, and the Perfect Meal (Simon & Schuster), winner of the M.F.K. Fisher Book award, and the editor of the anthology Split: Stories From a Generation Raised on Divorce (McGraw Hill). She has written for The New York Times ("Urban Forager"), The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Village Voice, Marie Claire, Saveur, SPIN, and VIBE, among others. Her fiction and poetry appear in Dick for a Day, It's Only Rock N Roll, Listen Up! Spoken Word Poetry, and A Gathering of the Tribes. She contributed lyrics to Soul Coughing’s El Oso (Warner Bros.).
Chin has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers, the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. She is a Professor of Creative Nonfiction & Journalism at the City University of New York.
