Born in Shanghai and based in San Francisco, Meng Jin is the author of Little Gods: A Novel (Custom House). Her fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Masters Review, Baltimore Review, and Bare Life Review, as well as in the anthologies Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses and Best American Short Stories. Her next book, Self-Portrait with Ghost (Custom House), is a collection of short fiction stories and will be published in summer 2022.