May-Lee Chai

May-lee Chai is the author of the American Book Award-winning story collection Useful Phrases for Immigrants and ten other books. Her prize-winning short prose has been published widely, including in the New England Review , Missouri Review , Seventeen , The Rumpus , ZYZZYVA , the Los Angeles Times , Dallas Morning News , and the San Francisco Chronicle . The recipient of an NEA fellowship in prose, Chai is an associate professor in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State...See more

May-lee Chai is the author of the American Book Award-winning story collection Useful Phrases for Immigrants and ten other books. Her prize-winning short prose has been published widely, including in the New England Review , Missouri Review , Seventeen , The Rumpus , ZYZZYVA , the Los Angeles Times , Dallas Morning News , and the San Francisco Chronicle . The recipient of an NEA fellowship in prose, Chai is an associate professor in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University. See less