Lan Samantha Chang is the author of The Family Chao, which won an Anisfield-Wolf Award for Fiction. A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of her first collection, Hunger: A Novella and Stories, was recently published by W.W. Norton & Company. She is also the author of All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost, and Inheritance, which won the PEN Open Book Award. Her short stories have been published in Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, and The Best American Short Stories.
In 2024, she was awarded an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Since 2006, she has directed the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, where she is Elizabeth M. Stanley Professor of the Arts. She has received fellowships from the American Library in Paris, the Radcliffe Institute, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
During her residencies at MacDowell, Chang has worked on her novels Inheritance, a then yet untitled third novel about a Chinese American family in the Midwest, and The Family Chao. At MacDowell in 2024, she began work on a short novel set in the Midwest.
Portrait by Ife Oluwa Nihinlola
