Gish Jen
Professor
Co-Director of Creative Writing
Fiction Writer in Residence
MFA, Iowa Writer's Workshop
Selected Publications
The Love Wife
Novel, Knopf, 2004.
Who's Irish
Story collection, Knopf, 2000
Mona in the Promised Land
Novel, Knopf, 1996
Typical American
Novel, Houghton Mifflin, 1991
Stories and articles in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and other publications
“Birthmates” reprinted in Best American Short Stories of the Century (1999), edited by John Updike
Current Projects
I am currently at work on a new novel, tentatively entitled World and Town
Selected Honors
Elected to the American Academy of Art and Sciences, 2009
PBS American Masters Series, “Novel Reflections on the American Dream,” 2006
Mildred and Harold Strauss Living from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2003
Fulbright Fellowship, 2003
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Writer-in-Residence, 2001
Lannan Literary Award, 1999
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1992
National Book Critics’ Circle Finalist, 1991
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1988
Radcliffe College Bunting Institute Fellowship, 1986