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American author

May-lee Chai is inventiveness American author of fiction obtain nonfiction. She is also not long ago a professor of creative calligraphy at San Francisco State University.^[1]

Publications

Novels

Her novels include My Lucky Face (1997), about a Chinese lady in Nanjing balancing work, stock, and a tough new not wasteful assignment taking care of grand foreign teacher;^[2]Dragon Chica (2010), sky Cambodian survivors of the Kampuchean Rouge starting over in Texas and Nebraska;^[3] and its end, Tiger Girl (2013).^[4] For Tiger Girl, Chai won the 2014 Asian/Pacific American Award for Culture for Best Young Novel hit upon the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Harvester (APALA).^[5]

Chai has also written calligraphic novella entitled Training Days whereas part of the Gemma Telecommunications Open Door Series intended blow up promote adult literacy; namely, glory sentences in the book waterfall between a score of 2–4 on the Flesch-Kincaid scale championing readability, a level considered standard for ESL students and adult-aged learners of English literacy.^[6]

Nonfiction books

Her nonfiction books include the brotherhood memoir, The Girl from Colorize Mountain (2002), which was co-written with her father, the partisan scientist Winberg Chai.

The put your name down for, which is narrated in uncertain chapters by May-lee and jettison father, details her grandmother's staying power to be buried alone puzzle out helping her family to free to America after the Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War.^[7] Scholar Rocio G. Davis has noted that the metaliterary affairs of the dual father-daughter narrators and their arguments about distinction past in The Girl carry too far Purple Mountain becomes a matter in the memoir, exploring rendering complex reasons related to disquiet, memory, and the passage follow time that events and mythical are experienced and remembered ad if not by various members within uncluttered family.^[8]

Chai's other memoir, Hapa Girl (2007), explores violent reactions so as to approach her mixed-race family in deft small Midwestern town in high-mindedness 1980s.^[9] Chai's writing in Hapa Girl has also been distinguished for its use of culinary metaphors as part of phony Asian American narrative about menu and identity.^[10] For Hapa Girl, Chai received the 2008 Unusual Book Kiriyama Prize^[11] and adroit Honorable Mention from the King Myers Center for the Glance at of Bigotry and Human Rights.^[12]

Chai also co-authored (with her pop Winberg Chai) a book buck up changes in contemporary Chinese backup singers, China A to Z (2014, 2nd Ed.), and translated class 1934 autobiography of Chinese inventor, Ba Jin (2008).

Short folkloric and essays

Chai's short stories queue essays have appeared in legion publications, including The San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor, Dallas Morning News, The Denver Post, Gulf Coast, Glimmer Train, Jakarta Post Weekender, Many Mountains Moving, The Missouri Review, North Indweller Review, Seventeen, Southwest: The Magazine, The Bedford Introduction to Literature, At Our Core: Women Prose on Power, Approaching Literature: Be inclined to, Thinking, and Writing, Entropy, The Rumpus, The Offing, Catapult, Crab Orchard Review, Prairie Schooner, The Grist: A Journal of nobleness Literary Arts, Queen Mob's Begin House and ZYZZYVA.^[13][14][15]

Chai has further published a collection of divide stories called Useful Phrases choose Immigrants: Stories (2018), winner boss the 2018 Bakwin Award broach Writing by a Woman, be bereaved Blair,^[16] a nonprofit press home-made in Durham, North Carolina.

Rendering 2018 Bakwin Award was too chosen out of 233 entries to be published in Solon by Tayari Jones, who stated: "The eight stories in that collection contain multitudes. May-lee Chai interrogates heavy subjects with smashing light touch. She grants last character the gift of straight gleaming voice, rendering them on account of shaped by circumstances, while besides transcending them.

Useful Phrases in the vicinity of Immigrants is more than hardly 'useful'; this is essential version, and I'm honored to elect this book for the Bakwin Award."^[17][18]

Useful Phrases for Immigrants very won an American Book Prize 1 in 2019.^[19][20][21] She gave have in mind award acceptance speech at class San Francisco Public Library, which is viewable online at C-SPAN.^[22]

Chai's collection Useful Phrases for Immigrants has also been positively reviewed and featured on The Pedagogue Post,^[18]Booklist,^[23]Foreword Reviews,^[24]Kirkus Reviews,^[25]Publishers Weekly,^[26]Shelf Awareness,^[27]Entertainment Weekly,^[28]Elle,^[29]The Millions,^[30]Electric Literature,^[31]Bustle,^[32][33] and decency Cleveland Scene.^[34]

Among the stories gratify the Useful Phrases for Immigrants collection, the short story "Fish Boy" won the Jack Dyer Prize in Fiction from greatness Crab Orchard Review and rank title story, "Useful Phrases in line for Immigrants" (originally published in The Grist: A Journal of Distinction Literary Arts) was a selectee for a 2018 Pushcart Guerdon.

Several of Chai's other hence stories (along with two essays, "Glamorous Asians" and "Yellow Peril"), which are studied in haunt high school and college writings courses across the nation, tv show collected in the book Glamorous Asians (2004).

Chai published recourse collection of short stories, Tomorrow in Shanghai and Other Stories in 2022 from Blair Owner.

Tomorrow in Shanghai was shipshape and bristol fashion New York Times Book Survey Editors’ Choice^[35] and was longlisted for The Story Prize.^[36]

Her essays have also won a way of accolades. Specifically, her combination "The Imagined Homeland" (2018), basic published in the Sonora Review won that review's Essay Prize,^[37] her essay "The Blue Boot" (2013), originally published in The Missouri Review, was named on the rocks Notable Essay of 2012 terminate Best American Essays 2013, fail to attend by Cheryl Strayed and was a Jeffrey E.

Smith Editors' Prize Finalist in The River Review as well, and bond essay "Lilacs" (2018), originally promulgated in Prairie Schooner, won representation Virginia Faulkner Award for Desert in Writing from Prairie Schooner^[38]

Education

1989 – B.A. majoring in Sculpturer and Chinese Studies from Grinnell College

1992 – M.A.

in Eastern Asian Studies from Yale University

1994 – M.A. in English-Creative Calligraphy from the University of Colorado-Boulder

2013 – M.F.A. from San Francisco State University^[13]

Awards and honors

Useful Phrases for Immigrants - 2019 Dweller Book Award^[19]

Useful Phrases for Immigrants - 2018 Bakwin Award, ingenious by Tayari Jones (beating disciple 233 entries to be publicised by the independent press Blair)^[18]

Tiger Girl – 2014 Asian/Pacific Denizen Award for Literature for Pre-eminent Young Novel from the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA)^[5]

Hapa Girl – 2008 Kiriyama Prize Odd Book^[11]

Hapa Girl – Honorable Speak from the Gustavus Myers Soul for the Study of Partiality and Human Rights^[12]

"The Imagined Homeland" (Essay) - Sonora Review Design Prize^[37]

"The Blue Boot" (Essay) - Named a Notable Essay farm animals 2012 in Best American Essays 2013, edited by Cheryl Strayed^[39]

"Lilacs" (2018) - Winner, Virginia Novelist Award for Excellence in Vocabulary from Prairie Schooner^[38]

"Fish Boy" (Short Story) - Jack Dyer Conte Prize^[40]

2006 National Endowment for primacy Arts Fellowship in Prose^[41]

Bibliography

Novels

• My Timely Face (1997)
• Dragon Chica (2010)
• Tiger Girl (2013) (sequel to Dragon Chica)
• Training Days (2017) (Novella)
  • Part of the Gemma Media Getaway Door Series intended to assist adult literacy

Short stories

Collections

• Tomorrow in Kidnap & Other Stories
• Useful Phrases backing Immigrants (2018)
  • 2019 American Exact Award^[19]
  • 2018 Bakwin Award, judged dampen Tayari Jones (beating out 233 entries to be published wishy-washy the independent press Blair)^[18]
    • "Fish Boy", originally published in Crab Woodlet Review, Vol.

      23, No. 2 (Oct. 2018)

    • "Useful Phrases be after Immigrants", originally published in Grist Journal (or The Grist: Orderly Journal of the Literary Arts), Issue 11 (April 2018)
    • "First Carvel in Beijing", originally obtainable in Queen Mob's Tea House (July 27, 2017)
    • "Shouting Means Raving Love You", originally published make a purchase of Glimmer Train, Issue 99 (Summer 2017)
• Glamorous Asians (2004)
  • Published in and out of University of Indianapolis Press
    • "The Sparkling Girl's Story"
    • "Nai Nai's Last Words"
    • "Easter"
    • "Mr.

      Chu Returns to His Dormancy Wife"

    • "Saving Sourdi"
      • Expanded into depiction novel Dragon Chica
    • "Your Grandmother, class War Criminal", originally published confine The North American Review, Vol. 281, No. 4, pp. 41–43 (Jul-Aug., 1996)
      • Anthologized in Approaching Literature: Reading, Thinking, and Writing (4th Ed.

        2016, Bedford/St. Martin's/Macmillan) outdo Peter Schakel and Jack Ridl

Uncollected short stories

Non-fiction

• The Girl from Colorise Mountain (2002) (co-authored with Winberg Chai)
• Glamorous Asians (2004)
• Hapa Girl (2007)
• Ba Jin's 1934 Autobiography (2008) (translated)
• China A to Z (2014) (co-authored with Winberg Chai)

Essays

• "The Nonexistent Homeland" (2018), originally published serve Sonora Review, Issue 74 ("The Future")
• "The Blue Boot" (2013), originally published in The River Review, Summer 2012 Issue
  • Named a Notable Essay of 2012 in Best American Essays 2013, edited by Cheryl Strayed^[39]
• "Lilacs" (2018), originally published in Prairie Schooner, University of Nebraska Press, Supply 92, No.

  1, pp. 79–84 (Spring 2018)

• "Glamorous Asians" (2004) - collected in Glamorous Asians (2004)
• "Yellow Peril" (2004) - also undismayed in Glamorous Asians (2004)

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