Ava Chin

Ava Chin is the author of "Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion & Homecoming" (Penguin Press), which Publisher's Weekly described as "stunning," and the NY Times called "sensitive, ambitious, well-reported." Kirkus deemed her award-winning debut memoir "Eating Wildly" (Simon & Schuster) "A delectable feast of the heart." Chin's writing has appeared in the New York Times ("Urban Forager"), the Washington Post, the Village Voice, Saveur, and SPIN magazine, among others. An associate professor of creative nonfiction at CUNY, she lives in Manhattan with her husband and daughter. The Huffington Post named Ava Chin one of "9 Contemporary Authors You Should Be Reading."