Mei Chin

Mei Chin (born 1977) is a fiction and food writer living in Dublin.[1]

Her short stories have appeared in Fiction and Bomb Magazine and are characterized by a combination of the fantastic and the mundane.[2]

She won the James Beard Foundation's M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award in 2005 for "Eat Drink Mother Daughter,"[3][4] (a long article published in Saveur) and won an IACP Food Journalism Award in 2010 for her Saveur article "The Art of Kimchi."[5][6] Her essays have been anthologized in Best Food Writing 2004 and 2006.[7]

In the late 1990s she was an editor at Vogue Magazine, and she has written reviews and essays for Gourmet, Vogue, Mirabella, the New York Times Book Review, and other publications.[8][9] She is also the author of a number of books of literary criticism for Chelsea House Publishers, and she has taught food writing at Yale.[10]

She is a native of Connecticut and a graduate of Hopkins School and Wesleyan University. Her mother, Professor Annping Chin, and her stepfather, Professor Jonathan Spence, both teach at Yale.

References

  1. ↑ Baste the Book
  2. ↑ Fiction Magazine Author Index
  3. ↑ "Eat Drink Mother Daughter," Saveur, Feb 4, 2008
  4. ↑ StarChefs.com
  5. ↑ "The Art of Kimchi," Saveur, October 14, 2009
  6. ↑ IACP Press Release, April 23, 2010
  7. ↑ "My Life With Rice," Best Food Writing 2006
  8. ↑ Gourmet October 2008 Press Release
  9. ↑ "Dana Schutz," Bomb Magazine Spring 2006
  10. ↑ Yale Writing Center web site

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