Meng Jin

Author and educator Meng Jin came to Hunter for the opportunity to work with the tight-knit group of faculty and students known to be deeply invested in each other’s success as writers. “What really matters at Hunter is the writing, and the opportunity to work with amazing writers,” she said. “What makes Hunter unique is the people: the faculty and the students. In no other MFA will you find writers of this caliber working so closely with each and every student in the program. I, like many of my classmates, applied to Hunter after being inspired by the faculty’s work.”

While at Hunter, Jin was a Hertog Fellow, and continued to teach literature and creative writing at Hunter after earning her MFA in 2015. Jin was a Kundiman Fellow and has also received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies.

Jin is the author of the novel Little Gods (2020, Custom House), which was a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Award, Los Angeles Times First Prize, and longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award; and the story collection Self-Portrait with Ghost (2022, Custom House). She is the recipient of a David TK Wong Fellowship, Steinbeck Fellowship, and Creative Capital Award, and her short fiction has been anthologized in the Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses and Best American Short Stories. She is a visiting lecturer in English at Harvard University, and her work has appeared in the Baltimore Review, Vogue, and The Masters Review.