MFA Writing Spring Colloquium: Elaine Hsieh Chou Speculative Fiction Craft Talk: “Who Is Speaking? The Collapse of Narrative Distance in the Era of Personal Brand”

Elaine Hsieh Chou is a Taiwanese American author and screenwriter from California. Her debut novel Disorientation was a New York Times Editors' Choice Book, NYPL Young Lions Finalist and Thurber Prize Finalist. Her short story collection Where Are You Really From was named a 2025 Best-of-Year Selection by Time, Electric Literature and NPR. Her Pushcart Award-winning short fiction appears in Guernica, Black Warrior Review, Tin House Online, Ploughshares and The Atlantic, while her essays appear in The Cut and Vanity Fair. She is the recipient of the 2023 Fred R. Brown Literary Award and has been supported by the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Sundance Institute and the Hedgebrook writers-in-residence program.

This event is colloquium credit eligible. Register here for the Zoom livestream.