Jean Chen Ho is a writer in Los Angeles. She was born in Taiwan and grew up in Southern California. Her work has been published in Pank, VIDA, The Offing, Apogee, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, by NPR, and elsewhere.
A Kundiman fellow, Jean has been awarded scholarships to attend Community of Writers, Bread Loaf, and Tin House. She's received residency fellowships from MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center, and The Mastheads. Jean was named a Finalist for the 2017 Cosmonauts Avenue Fiction Prize and received Honorable Mention in the 2017 Glimmer Train Fiction Open. She completed revisions to her linked short story collection while at MacDowell in fall 2018. She also worked on two creative nonfiction essays, and is at work on a novel.
Portrait by Julian Sambrano Jr