Born in Beijing, C Pam Zhang is mostly an artifact of the United States. Zhang’s writing appears in Best American Short Stories, The Cut, McSweeney’s Quarterly, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. She is a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree.
She is the author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold, which is winner of the Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award and the Asian/Pacific Award for Literature, a nominee for the Booker Prize, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and the National Book Critics’ John Leonard Prize, and one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year.
At MacDowell in 2023, Zhang worked on a novel about the borderlands between appropriation, imagination, and artistic license.
Portrait by Cayce Clifford
