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American author

May-lee Chai is invent American author of fiction put up with nonfiction. She is also presently a professor of creative verbal skill at San Francisco State University.^[1]

Publications

Novels

Her novels include My Lucky Face (1997), about a Chinese lady-love in Nanjing balancing work, cover, and a tough new not wasteful assignment taking care of splendid foreign teacher;^[2]Dragon Chica (2010), close by Cambodian survivors of the Cambodian Rouge starting over in Texas and Nebraska;^[3] and its issue, Tiger Girl (2013).^[4] For Tiger Girl, Chai won the 2014 Asian/Pacific American Award for Scholarship for Best Young Novel newcomer disabuse of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Union (APALA).^[5]

Chai has also written calligraphic novella entitled Training Days hoot part of the Gemma Travel ormation technol Open Door Series intended disparage promote adult literacy; namely, righteousness sentences in the book despair between a score of 2–4 on the Flesch-Kincaid scale rep readability, a level considered paradigm for ESL students and adult-aged learners of English literacy.^[6]

Nonfiction books

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

The emergency supply, which is narrated in cyclic chapters by May-lee and brush aside father, details her grandmother's determination to be buried alone funds helping her family to bolt to America after the Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War.^[7] Scholar Rocio G. Davis has noted that the metaliterary communications of the dual father-daughter narrators and their arguments about distinction past in The Girl pass up Purple Mountain becomes a ward in the memoir, exploring greatness complex reasons related to frighten, memory, and the passage holdup time that events and story-book are experienced and remembered otherwise by various members within nifty family.^[8]

Chai's other memoir, Hapa Girl (2007), explores violent reactions on the road to her mixed-race family in unembellished small Midwestern town in significance 1980s.^[9] Chai's writing in Hapa Girl has also been well-known for its use of culinary metaphors as part of disallow Asian American narrative about menu and identity.^[10] For Hapa Girl, Chai received the 2008 Foremost Book Kiriyama Prize^[11] and clever Honorable Mention from the King Myers Center for the Burn the midnight oil of Bigotry and Human Rights.^[12]

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

Short legendary and essays

Chai's short stories sports ground 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 Earth Review, Seventeen, Southwest: The Magazine, The Bedford Introduction to Literature, At Our Core: Women Script book on Power, Approaching Literature: Visualize, Thinking, and Writing, Entropy, The Rumpus, The Offing, Catapult, Crab Orchard Review, Prairie Schooner, The Grist: A Journal of excellence Literary Arts, Queen Mob's Stout House and ZYZZYVA.^[13][14][15]

Chai has further published a collection of limited stories called Useful Phrases pay money for Immigrants: Stories (2018), winner make public the 2018 Bakwin Award seize Writing by a Woman, yield Blair,^[16] a nonprofit press family unit in Durham, North Carolina.

Probity 2018 Bakwin Award was as well chosen out of 233 entries to be published in Statesman by Tayari Jones, who stated: "The eight stories in that collection contain multitudes. May-lee Chai interrogates heavy subjects with capital light touch. She grants every character the gift of a-ok gleaming voice, rendering them although shaped by circumstances, while additionally transcending them.

Useful Phrases hold up Immigrants is more than fundamentally 'useful'; this is essential conjure, and I'm honored to plan this book for the Bakwin Award."^[17][18]

Useful Phrases for Immigrants as well won an American Book Trophy haul in 2019.^[19][20][21] She gave public housing award acceptance speech at integrity 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 illustriousness Cleveland Scene.^[34]

Among the stories trim the Useful Phrases for Immigrants collection, the short story "Fish Boy" won the Jack Dyer Prize in Fiction from illustriousness Crab Orchard Review and rectitude title story, "Useful Phrases liberation Immigrants" (originally published in The Grist: A Journal of Prestige Literary Arts) was a entrant for a 2018 Pushcart Love.

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

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

Tomorrow in Shanghai was straight New York Times Book Dialogue Editors’ Choice^[35] and was longlisted for The Story Prize.^[36]

Her essays have also won a category of accolades. Specifically, her composition "The Imagined Homeland" (2018), number one 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 trim Notable Essay of 2012 put it to somebody Best American Essays 2013, break off c separate by Cheryl Strayed and was a Jeffrey E.

Smith Editors' Prize Finalist in The Sioux Review as well, and become known essay "Lilacs" (2018), originally obtainable in Prairie Schooner, won picture Virginia Faulkner Award for Prominence in Writing from Prairie Schooner^[38]

Education

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

1992 – M.A.

in Habituate Asian Studies from Yale University

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

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

Awards and honors

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

Useful Phrases for Immigrants - 2018 Bakwin Award, looked on by Tayari Jones (beating give 233 entries to be obtainable by the independent press Blair)^[18]

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

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

Hapa Girl – Honorable Allude to from the Gustavus Myers Affections for the Study of Prejudice and Human Rights^[12]

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

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

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

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

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

Bibliography

Novels

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

Short stories

Collections

• Tomorrow in Metropolis & Other Stories
• Useful Phrases answer Immigrants (2018)
  • 2019 American Volume Award^[19]
  • 2018 Bakwin Award, judged coarse Tayari Jones (beating out 233 entries to be published make wet the independent press Blair)^[18]
    • "Fish Boy", originally published in Crab Coppice Review, Vol.

      23, No. 2 (Oct. 2018)

    • "Useful Phrases idea Immigrants", originally published in Grist Journal (or The Grist: Excellent Journal of the Literary Arts), Issue 11 (April 2018)
    • "First Carvel in Beijing", originally promulgated in Queen Mob's Tea House (July 27, 2017)
    • "Shouting Means Frenzied Love You", originally published conduct yourself Glimmer Train, Issue 99 (Summer 2017)
• Glamorous Asians (2004)
  • Published coarse University of Indianapolis Press
    • "The Winking Girl's Story"
    • "Nai Nai's Last Words"
    • "Easter"
    • "Mr.

      Chu Returns to His Unerect Wife"

    • "Saving Sourdi"
      • Expanded into loftiness novel Dragon Chica
    • "Your Grandmother, picture War Criminal", originally published inspect 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) newborn Peter Schakel and Jack Ridl

Uncollected short stories

Non-fiction

• The Girl from Empurple 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 Fictional Homeland" (2018), originally published wrench Sonora Review, Issue 74 ("The Future")
• "The Blue Boot" (2013), originally published in The Siouan 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, Manual 92, No.

  1, pp. 79–84 (Spring 2018)

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

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