Jean Chen Ho is the author of Fiona and Jane, one of TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022, longlisted for the Story Prize, and named a “Best Book of the Year” by NPR, Vulture, Vogue, Oprah Daily, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, and Electric Literature. Her fiction, essays, and criticism appear in New York Times Magazine, Sewanee Review, Guernica, The Cut, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere.

Her work has been received support from MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Aspen Words, Willapa Bay AiR, Lighthouse Works, the I-Park Foundation, and the W.M. Keck/Cheng Fellowship at the Huntington Library, among others. She teaches at Chapman University and the Randolph College Low-Residency MFA, and has held appointments at UCLA (2025 Author-in-Residence), Skidmore College (2023-24 Visiting Assistant Professor), and Scripps College (2023 Mary Routt Endowed Chair of Writing). She has a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. She was born in Taiwan and currently lives in Los Angeles.

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