Ava Chin is the author of Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming, a 2024 ALA Notable Book and a TIME 100 Must-Read Book, and the award-winning Eating Wildly. She will be a visiting scholar at NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge in 2024-2025.
Her writing has appeared in The New York Times (“Urban Forager”), Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Village Voice, SPIN, and VIBE, among others. She is the recipient of awards from the NY Public Library’s Cullman Center, the Fulbright Program, NYFA, NY Institute for the Humanities, and the AAWW. She is a professor of creative nonfiction at the City University of New York.
At MacDowell, Chin worked on her follow-up memoir to Mott Street, about the impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on four generations of her family in NYC's Chinatown.
