Ava Chin

Ava Chin is the author of Eating Wildly, winner of the MFK Fisher Book Award. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times (“Urban Forager”), the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, Marie Claire, Saveur, and Eating Well, among others. She is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center Fulbright U.S. Scholars’ Program, the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University, and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. She is an associate professor of creative nonfiction at the City University of New York.