Christina Chiu
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Christina Chiu is a prize-winning Chinese-American author, educator, and designer. She is the winner of the James Alan McPherson Award for her novel Beauty, which was also a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020. She is also the author of a collection of linked stories, Troublemaker and Other Saints. Troublemaker was a nominee for a BOMC Stephen Crane First Fiction Award and winner of the Asian American Literary Award. She received her MFA from Columbia University. Chiu lives in New York City.[1]
Chiu’s stories appear in Tin House, The New Guard, Washington Square Review and The MacGuffin. She has won literary prizes from Playboy Magazine and The APA Journal. Her story “Waves” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Chiu’s essays appear in Electric Literature, Publisher’s Weekly, and Poets & Writers.
Chiu is a founding member of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.
Early Life and Education
Chiu grew up in Scarsdale, New York, and attended Edgemont Junior – Senior High School, graduating in 1987. Portions of her short story collection, Troublemaker and Other Saints reflect her observations of Edgemont's atmosphere. She then attended Bates College [2] and earned her MFA at Columbia University.
CAREER
Chiu's first book, Troublemaker and Other Saints, is a short story collection published in 2001 by Putnam Press.[3] The book contains 11 linked stories about different members of a Chinese American community—including a matriarch, a granddaughter, and a young punk—who all collide and come together in miraculous ways. [4]
Chiu's second book, Beauty, was published in 2020 by Santa Fe Writers Project. The book follows Amy Wong, an up-and-coming fashion designer. Throughout the novel, Amy faces rival fashion designers and prejudice while also struggling with marriage and motherhood. Beauty was the grand prize winner of the James Alan McPherson Award.[5]. Kirkus Reviews wrote that it is a "A sexy, unflinching portrait of a woman revolting against the life she makes for herself." [6]
References
- ↑ "Karmic Moments: A Conversation with Christina Chiu". 11 May 2020.
- ↑ "Fiction writer Christina Chiu'91 to read from work". 12 February 2002.
- ↑ "Putnam". 23 June 2021.
- ↑ "TROUBLEMAKER AND OTHER SAINTS by Christina Chiu".
- ↑ Beauty. 2040 Books Awards. 2040 Books, an imprint of Santa Fe Writers Project. 2020. ISBN 978-1-7337777-5-9.
- ↑ "Beauty".
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