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Jiayang Fan has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2016. Her reporting on China, American politics, and culture has appeared in the magazine and on newyorker.com since 2010.
At MacDowell, she worked on her first book, a memoir, titled Motherland.
Jiayang Fan worked in the Star studio.
Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…