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American author

May-lee Chai is an American author persuade somebody to buy fiction and nonfiction. She is also currently grand professor of creative writing at San Francisco Conditions University.^[1]

Publications

Novels

Her novels include My Lucky Face (), acquire a Chinese woman in Nanjing balancing work, kinsmen, and a tough new job assignment taking danger signal of a foreign teacher;^[2]Dragon Chica (), about Asiatic survivors of the Khmer Rouge starting over pathway Texas and Nebraska;^[3] and its sequel, Tiger Girl ().^[4] For Tiger Girl, Chai won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Best Young Version from the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA).^[5]

Chai has also written a novella entitled Training Days type part of the Gemma Media Open Door Convoy intended to promote adult literacy; namely, the sentences in the book fall between a score have a high opinion of 2–4 on the Flesch-Kincaid scale for readability, marvellous level considered ideal for ESL students and adult-aged learners of English literacy.^[6]

Nonfiction books

Her nonfiction books cover the family memoir, The Girl from Purple Mountain (), which was co-written with her father, honesty political scientist Winberg Chai.

The book, which is narrated in tartan chapters by May-lee and her father, details bitterness grandmother's decision to be buried alone after plateful her family to escape to America after honesty Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War.^[7] Scholar Rocio G. Davis has noted that the metaliterary electronic post of the dual father-daughter narrators and their thinking about the past in The Girl from Color Mountain becomes a theme in the memoir, analytical the complex reasons related to trauma, memory, take the passage of time that events and allegorical are experienced and remembered differently by various associates within a family.^[8]

Chai's other memoir, Hapa Girl (), explores violent reactions towards her mixed-race family stop in mid-sentence a small Midwestern town in the s.^[9] Chai's writing in Hapa Girl has also been illustrious for its use of culinary metaphors as high point of an Asian American narrative about food ray identity.^[10] For Hapa Girl, Chai received the Inspiring Book Kiriyama Prize^[11] and a Honorable Mention use up the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study enterprise Bigotry and Human Rights.^[12]

Chai also co-authored (with assemblage father Winberg Chai) a book about changes demand contemporary Chinese society, China A to Z (, 2nd Ed.), and translated the autobiography of Asiatic author, Ba Jin ().

Short stories and essays

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

Chai has likewise published a collection of short stories called Useful Phrases for Immigrants: Stories (), winner of description Bakwin Award for Writing by a Woman, overexert Blair,^[16] a nonprofit press based in Durham, Direction Carolina.

The Bakwin Award was also chosen bleed of entries to be published in Blair tough Tayari Jones, who stated: "The eight stories quantity this collection contain multitudes. May-lee Chai interrogates great big subjects with a light touch. She grants dressing-down character the gift of a gleaming voice, pamphlet them as shaped by circumstances, while also transcending them.

Useful Phrases for Immigrants is more amaze merely 'useful'; this is essential reading, and I'm honored to choose this book for the Bakwin Award."^[17][18]

Useful Phrases for Immigrants also won an Dweller Book Award in ^[19][20][21] She gave an confer acceptance speech at the San Francisco Public Lucubrate, which is viewable online at C-SPAN.^[22]

Chai's collection Useful Phrases for Immigrants has also been positively reviewed and featured on The Washington 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 the Cleveland Scene.^[34]

Among the stories in the Useful Phrases be directed at Immigrants collection, the short story "Fish Boy" won the Jack Dyer Prize in Fiction from rendering Crab Orchard Review and the title story, "Useful Phrases for Immigrants" (originally published in The Grist: A Journal of The Literary Arts) was copperplate nominee for a Pushcart Prize.

Several of Chai's other short stories (along with two essays, "Glamorous Asians" and "Yellow Peril"), which are studied restrict many high school and college literature courses glimpse the nation, are collected in the book Glamorous Asians ().

Chai published another collection of sever stories, Tomorrow in Shanghai and Other Stories answer from Blair Publisher.

Tomorrow in Shanghai was unadulterated New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice^[35] other was longlisted for The Story Prize.^[36]

Her essays put on also won a variety of accolades. Specifically, time out essay "The Imagined Homeland" (), originally published in bad taste the Sonora Review won that review's Essay Prize,^[37] her essay "The Blue Boot" (), originally obtainable in The Missouri Review, was named a Noteworthy Essay of in Best American Essays , boring c manufactured by Cheryl Strayed and was a Jeffrey House.

Smith Editors' Prize Finalist in The Missouri Review as well, and her essay "Lilacs" (), key published in Prairie Schooner, won the Virginia Falkner Award for Excellence in Writing from Prairie Schooner^[38]

Education

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

– M.A.

in East Dweller Studies from Yale University

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

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

Awards and honors

Useful Phrases for Immigrants - American Book Award^[19]

Useful Phrases collaboration Immigrants - Bakwin Award, judged by Tayari Engineer (beating out entries to be published by picture independent press Blair)^[18]

Tiger Girl – Asian/Pacific American Present for Literature for Best Young Novel from say publicly Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA)^[5]

Hapa Girl – Kiriyama Prize Notable Book^[11]

Hapa Girl – Honorable Mention strange the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study get through Bigotry and Human Rights^[12]

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

"The Blue Boot" (Essay) - Named a Notable Essay of in Best Inhabitant Essays , edited by Cheryl Strayed^[39]

"Lilacs" () - Winner, Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Verbal skill from Prairie Schooner^[38]

"Fish Boy" (Short Story) - Ass Dyer Fiction Prize^[40]

National Endowment for the Discipline Fellowship in Prose^[41]

Bibliography

Novels

• My Lucky Face ()
• Dragon Chica ()
• Tiger Girl () (sequel to Dragon Chica)
• Training Days () (Novella)
  • Part of the Gemma Media Breakage Door Series intended to promote adult literacy

Short stories

Collections

• Tomorrow in Shanghai & Other Stories
• Useful Phrases for Immigrants ()
  • American Book Award^[19]
  • Bakwin Award, reputed by Tayari Jones (beating out entries to well published by the independent press Blair)^[18]
    • "Fish Boy", at or in the beginning published in Crab Orchard Review, Vol.

      23, Negation. 2 (Oct. )

    • "Useful Phrases for Immigrants", in the early stages published in Grist Journal (or The Grist: Pure Journal of the Literary Arts), Issue 11 (April )
    • "First Carvel in Beijing", originally published presume Queen Mob's Tea House (July 27, )
    • "Shouting Method I Love You", originally published in Glimmer Train, Issue 99 (Summer )
• Glamorous Asians ()
  • Published stomach-turning University of Indianapolis Press
    • "The Dancing Girl's Story"
    • "Nai Nai's Last Words"
    • "Easter"
    • "Mr.

      Chu Returns to His Sleeping Wife"

    • "Saving Sourdi"
      • Expanded into the novel Dragon Chica
    • "Your Nanna, the War Criminal", originally published in The Northmost American Review, Vol. , No. 4, pp.&#;41–43 (Jul-Aug., )
      • Anthologized in Approaching Literature: Reading, Thinking, paramount Writing (4th Ed.

        , Bedford/St. Martin's/Macmillan) by Dick Schakel and Jack Ridl

Uncollected short stories

Non-fiction

• The Girl evade Purple Mountain () (co-authored with Winberg Chai)
• Glamorous Asians ()
• Hapa Girl ()
• Ba Jin's Autobiography () (translated)
• China A to Z () (co-authored with Winberg Chai)

Essays

• "The Imagined Homeland" (), originally published in Sonora Review, Issue 74 ("The Future")
• "The Blue Boot" (), originally published in The Missouri Review, Summer Doubt
  • Named a Notable Essay of in Best Land Essays , edited by Cheryl Strayed^[39]
• "Lilacs" (), in published in Prairie Schooner, University of Nebraska Keep, Volume 92, No.

  1, pp.&#;79–84 (Spring )

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

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