About me
May-lee Chai is an educator, critic, and author of twelve books of fiction, nonfiction, and translation, including her new book of essays, My Hungry Ghosts: Essays and Incantations, and the short story collections, Useful Phrases for Immigrants, recipient of an American Book Award, and Tomorrow in Shanghai & Other Stories, which was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and longlisted for The Story Prize. Her criticism has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Washington Post Book World, Minnesota Star Tribune, Seattle Times, and elsewhere. She teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at San Francisco State University and is a board member of the National Book Critics Circle.
