Deanna Fei

Deanna Fei is the author of the highly acclaimed memoir GIRL IN GLASS (Bloomsbury, 2015) and the award-winning novel A THREAD OF SKY (Penguin Press, 2010). GIRL IN GLASS has been hailed as "an exquisite memoir" by the New York Times, "extraordinarily beautiful" by NPR, and "an impassioned, important book" by the Washington Post. Fei has been featured on the Today show, CBS This Morning, PBS NewsHour, NPR's All Things Considered, CNN, and MSNBC.

A THREAD OF SKY was selected as a New York Times Editors' Choice, the winner of Late Night Library's Debut-litzer Prize, the Chinese American Librarians' Association Best Book of 2010, and an Indie Next Notable Book.

In 2014, Fei's essay, “My Baby and AOL’s Bottom Line,” went viral worldwide and sparked national conversations about premature births, medical privacy, corporate accounting, employer-sponsored health care, and what a human life is worth. She currently works with March of Dimes to help raise awareness of the true tolls of prematurity and Graham’s Foundation to help advocate for parents of premature babies.

Fei was born in Flushing, New York, and graduated from Amherst College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has received a Fulbright Grant and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, TIME, Fortune, Slate, and The Millions, among other publications.

Fei has taught and counseled at-risk youth through the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, CASES, and New York City public schools. She regularly gives talks at forums such as the Museum of Chinese in America, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference, the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest, and schools and universities nationwide. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.

Visit her website at http://www.deannafei.com.