Elaine Hsieh Chou, author portrait
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Elaine Hsieh Chou

Elaine Hsieh Chou is a Taiwanese American author and screenwriter from California. Described as “the funniest, most poignant novel of the year” by Vogue, her debut novel Disorientation was a New York Times Editors’ Choice Book, New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Finalist and Thurber Prize Finalist. A former Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow at New York University, her Pushcart Award–winning short fiction appears in Guernica, Black Warrior Review, Tin House Online, Ploughshares and The Atlantic, while her essays appear in The Cut and Vanity Fair. She is a Fred R. Brown Literary Award recipient, a Sundance Episodic Lab Fellow and a Gotham Series Creator to Watch. Her work has been supported by the Harry Ransom Center, the New York Foundation for the Arts and Hedgebrook’s Writers-in-Residence Program.
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Where Are You Really From
Disorientation

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Thu Sep 04 | 07:00 PM
GREEN APPLE BOOKS ON THE PARK
1231 9th Ave
San Francisco, CA 94122
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Fri Sep 26 | 07:00 PM
The Writer's Block
519 S 6th St Ste 100
Las Vegas, NV 89101
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