Meng Jin (born 1989) is an American novelist.
Life
Jin was born in Shanghai and raised in China and the U.S.
She graduated with a BA from Harvard University in 2011, and from Hunter College's MFA program in 2015. While at Hunter, she was a Hertog Fellow. Continuing to teach literature and creative writing at Hunter, Jin also guest lectures at Harvard. She is a Kundiman Fellow, and has also received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies.
Her writing has appeared in Baltimore Review, Ploughshares, The Arkansas International, The Threepenny Review, Vogue, Bare Life Review, and The Masters Review; as well as anthologies such as The Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses.
She became the 2016-17 David T. K. Wong Fellow, a program at University of East Anglia, for her work in "deepening — through literature — inter-cultural understanding between Asia and the West". While at UEA, she worked on her first novel Little Gods.
Little Gods was published in 2020 in United States and in 2021 in the UK. It received acclaim from literary critics.
Works
Novels and Short Collections
Little Gods: A Novel (2020) Self-Portrait With Ghost (2022)